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Mr. Sandman Please Stop Hiding!
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tricia on
11.13.09 |
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Anyone out there got any connections with the Sandman? Know his twitter handle? Know where I might get in touch with him to make a stop by my house one evening? I’m sure my husband wouldn’t even mind.
Can I just say I am WAY OVER the pregnancy insomnia. This is ridiculous. I nodded off several times during a movie, at the movie theater, with my husband this evening. At 7:00 pm! And now it is after midnight, I have been in bed for over an hour, and I can’t sleep.
The preggo books say to take a bath or have your spouse massage your legs. Good plan I say. Too bad it doesn’t work. Did both tonight. No go. It isn’t the baby moving around causing a raucous either. The poor thing is being more than cooperative lately. And it isn’t that I am anxious or stressed out or thinking about what needs done next. Most nights I just lay there thinking about nothing at all. It really just seems like I would be able to sleep if I could detach my legs for the night and reattach them in the morning. They just don’t seem to know how to settle down.
I even have one of those great pregnancy pillows; but alas, that doesn’t seem to be working either. (Although I am certain it would be far worse if I didn’t have that). I have just given up. Most nights I just work late on the computer. I figure if nothing else, I will just take a nap with my son the next day. BUT I would love to find a solution if there is one.
Any of you have any wisdom? Home remedies? Tricks of the trade? If so, I would surely be glad to hear them. Any. Of. Them. In the meantime, I will be sitting on the couch praying for the Sandman to stop by, if you see him on your way to sweet dreams, could you mention I have been looking for him.
For me (and I’m only 24 weeks), after a couple nights on not sleeping good, I’ll eventually get a good night’s sleep. Yesterday I was SO T.I.R.E.D and could NOT fall asleep when I went to take a morning nap. I don’t know what it is. I hope you’re able to get some good sleep soon! I agree, it’s not so fun.
I had this too. Drove me crazy. I would go to be like normal each night and then wake up at 2 am unable to sleep. I would get up and watch The World Series of Poker which was on each morning on NBC. Not very interesting. At 4 am a slightly better news program would come on, and then the local news…
Hang in there!
I work at WalMart and we have a homeopathic remedy that I use regularly called “Restful Legs” by Hyland that works great!!! Otherwise I feel like I have been running all night, can’t keep them from moving. It only costs about 5 bucks for 50 tablets. You melt a couple under your tongue and most nights, I don’t even remember when I finally feel asleep. Just a thought.
Unisom is rated safe for pregnancy (according to my OB) I used it on occasion with my baby. I’d talk to you Dr.
This happened to me when I was pregnant with my second (baby is now 9 months) and I’m pregnant again so I’m praying it won’t come back. I know how you feel! It’s horrible! But I never could just get up and go do something until I fell asleep, like watch TV or clean, because before I new it I was up for hours. I don’t know if this will work for you but it did for me… when my legs would wake me up, I would walk up and down our hallway really slowly exaggerating my steps. I would go through every motion slowly (lifting up your knee really high, pushing it out to the floor, and then bringing your heel to your butt). After like 3 or 4 turns down my hallway, maybe 5 mins, I could fall asleep. It sounds goofy but it worked for me. Hang in there!