Insomnia - HELP

[SSmiles]

Hi Emma! I have had a lot of trouble sleeping at night since I was about 4 months pregnant... It got worse once bubs was born but is getting better now. My best way to get to sleep is something I made up myself...

I lay in bed with my eyes closed and concentrate on one point somewhere in the room (ie the fire alarm) while counting from 101 upwards... If I just count from 1 upwards it doesn't seem to work...maybe because I can do that without concentrating as much but I find if I keep concentrating on the numbers and that one point then I rarely get past 150 because I'm asleep. If I loose track or loose concentration then I just pick a number and keep going...

It has worked wonders for me. Maybe it might work for you too... Let me know how you go if you do try it.

[Emma1979]

oooh that sounds interesting!! i am certainly going to try it.

i am associating my bad sleep with hollie's bad sleeping, she went from sleeping thru to waking up 3 to 4 hourly, and I think that just put me out of whack and made me stress about when she was going to wake up and whether she would go back to sleep etc.... the past two nights she has slept thru again only waking once for her dummy, and I have slept quite well and gotten a few solid unbroken hours in, amazing the difference it makes!!

thank you I will let you know how i go with it.