Hi anyone got any advice or coping strategies for dealing with sleep deprevation?
DH is already in a seperate room and I have the comfy bed with pillows etc BUT baby keeps kicking me every 2-3 hrs and waking me up.
I know its good preperation for when bub finally arrives but I am not coping with it at all well.
For thoes who have found a way to get bub to sleep durring pregnancy or thoes who have been through the loop and found a way to get through please help. I still have so long to go before bub is born and I know it wont get any easier afterwards.
Oh I do have 2 advantages 1) I am at home (work at home at my own times) 2) no other children, just DH and dogs. So even really odd suggestions are welcome - I've been contemplating a hammock to rock bub and I to sleep, it would have to work right???
Thanks in advance, I'll try anything once.
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i have been having hot chocolate in a quite warm room i been having trouble getting sleep for past two weeks i want to find a cure now as im stil way early and i have so long to go,hope this helps or you find something i know how frustrating it can be.
As you can see by the time of this post I'm going through the same thing! I've been up since 3:45am
My best advice is to get up and have a cuppa and a bickie while doing a bit of web browsing or reading and go back to bed in half an hour or so. I find I go back to sleep easier this way rather than tossing and turning and getting frustrated that I'm not asleep.
I think sleep deprivation does go hand in hand with motherhood, from well before baby is born. I found I was waking frequently even in the first trimester with my girls.
The best things I have found are:
1. Bed time routine. Kids need it, and so do adults. For me, it's pretty fussy - wind down, have a bath or shower, cuddle up with DH on my left, talk for a while, then turn onto my right to sleep.
2. Add the bath to your bedtime routine. It's soooooooo relaxing and nice for achy hips and legs and back. And they say that your body is triggered to sleepiness as it cools down, so if the bath is warm, apparently when you get out, you will become sleepy.
3. Move out of your bed if you're not sleeping there. DH and I both find that if we are lying awake, tossing and turning, moving to the couch seems to solve it. We both sleep very quickly if we move to a new spot when we can't sleep in bed.
4. Try a body pillow. I found that as I got bigger, I was much more comfortable with my arms and legs kind of wrapped around a pillow and my tummy supported by it, as I lay on my side.
That's all I can think of for now. Hope you find something that helps. All the best!
Baby not even born and I can't get sleep!
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I found I was waking frequently even in the first trimester with my girls. 
And they say that your body is triggered to sleepiness as it cools down, so if the bath is warm, apparently when you get out, you will become sleepy. 
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