Anyone else waking at 3am every night?

When I just refreshed the "new posts", I noticed that I am the only person posting at this time! (its now 3.45am).....just wondered if anyone else in second trimester is experiencing what I am where you wake at around 3am each day and are wide awake for about an hour. Is this a normal hormonal part of pregnancy or what?? Baby isn't particularly active at this time (well she just kicked then so I guess she is at least wakeful), but is more active in the evening around 9pm.

I always wake up at 4am on the dot to go to the toilet, but I can go straight back to sleep. I'm guessing it's your hormones waking you up. Hope you get a better night's sleep soon!

Hey Berry,

I don't think I've slept through the night since very early pg. And absolutely, once I'm awake, I usually really awake, for at least an hour, sometimes more like 2. Or I manage to sleep till about 4.30, then that's it, cos I get up at 6 for work anyway....

Unfortunately, I only have sympathy for you, because nothing I've tried seems to get me through the night, so I have no advice or handy hints. I'm at the point where I've just resigned myself to the situation, and use the time to enjoy being in bed (cos it's the comfiest place in the world), and quite often to just enjoy the kicks & movements I'm often getting at that time - a bit of pre-birth bonding! And sometimes I give DP a bit of a cuddle, but not often cos I'd rather he stayed asleep, it's not fair to wake him just cos I'm up.

I sleep from about 9.30pm til 12.30am and im awake until 5.30am when I have to get up to go to work. I pretty much toss and turn (I probably drift off to sleep for about 15mins in an hour). Its not fun. My first pregnancy was the same and got worse as my due date approached. OB tells me its my body getting ready to be up at all hours of the night with the baby unfortunately my body has forgotten that I already have a child to tend to so this isnt really working out.

I have been waking up at 3am as well, but I go back to bed and listen to music or lie there and day dream as it is too cold to be up and about.

Hi Berry,

I was doing exactly what you were doing for a while but now I get so much broken sleep because I go to the toilet a zillion (well, what feels like it) a night. I didn't find anything that would make me go back to sleep and it was really frustrating!

Hope it stops for you soon!!

Yep all very normal to be up and about at all hours! I was up at 1.50 and then again at 3.30 - but the awake time in between is getting less now as im more tired than i was in the second tri!

when i was in the 2nd trimester, i was awake at 3:00am on the dot! Everynight. Now that edd is getting closer I'm up at least once an hour, if not to go to the toilet, its just coz I'm thirsty. It can be one or the other, or both! Frustrating, but like someone said, its too cold to be up and about at any hour of the night, so I get back into bed and snuggle up to dh, coz he always seems to be warm!

Yep, I'm waking at 2.30am almost every morning and staying awake for about 2 hours. I try not to wake DH but sometimes I get lonely - he he he.

I am also waking up - constantly!! I get up on the hour three seperate times to go to the toilet and then im awake from 3am for about an hour or so! Very annoying! I try to use a relaxation breathing technique that used to work when i had to do really early starts for work (to get me to sleep earlier at night) but this isnt working! and the toilet trips, leg cramps, expanding belly and a dog who insits sleeping right between DH and I isn't helping! hehehe. Oh well... :) I guess its all preperation! :)

Oh good to know its not just me! :grouphug:

Hi all

I am so pleased to hear that I am not the only one going through this. I am surviving on about 4 hours not continuous sleep. Unfortunately for me I have developed a bit of an "anxiety" thing out of it, and find it hard to accept that I am not tired. Last night I dozed on the couch so as not to disturb DH who can't cope with less than 9 hours sleep.

I too believe that it is the body's way of preparing me for parenthood so it is just something that I will have to put up with.

So try and sleep when we can......

S

actually i have been going through this since the very beginning of my pregnancy! It started about 5-6 3weeks..I would get really tired and go to bed around 9 and wake up between 1 and 3 pretty much every night and not be able to go back to sleep for an hour or 2. I think its normal

I go thru this every pregnancy...around the same stage too - 25-27 weeks. I can take up to 2 hours just to fall asleep at night....then i wake up at 2am, 3am....etc eetc. I find my mind really active...like im compiling a shopping list in my head or im organising what to do for my birthday in 9 months time - LOL. Really stoooooopid stuff.

I think i jinxed myself. I read these posts yesterday lunch and thought to myself, "hmm i must be lucky, i've had no sleeping problems". This morning I woke up at 2:50am and just lied there, thinking. Its now 4:20am and i've realised that the washing and ironing can't be put off any longer. So I'm currently doing a load of washing, once thats done.. ironing.
I hope i can sleep tomorrow!

I am also waking at exactly 4am for the nightly toilet trip and for baby to have a little kick around. Trouble is that if I don't get back to sleep by half past 4 then my rooster keeps me awake for the rest of the morning until I have to get up and go to work. he he;-)

I wake up every hour at least... and it usually takes me half an hour to fall asleep again! Although, i've started a new routine so that i don't wake so much during the night, i wake up early and stay active all day and go to bed late - as hard as it is to actually keep my eyes open, i end up only waking once through the night! Which is great! :)

I wake up at least once, go to the loo, and then it takes like an hour or 2 to get back to sleep. Saturday I was lucky woke up at 4.30, still awake at 5.30 DH had to work and needed to leave at 6.10, so at 5.30 I got up and made him a bacon and chees muffin and then woke him up to have his shower and eat his breakfast before he had to leave. I then got back into bed, watched telly for a few minutes and fell blisfully back to sleep. I woke again at 9.30 when he got home from working.

I know how you are all feeling!!!

I dont get to sleep before 1am at all, I wake at 3, toilet run.. take at least 45 mins to get back to sleep, wake again at 430, another toilet run, take at least another hour to sleep, wake at 630, another toilet run.... usually fall asleep pretty quickly, then I wake at 9am, toilet run, and because I am getting bugger all sleep, I try and sleep for another hour again.... doesnt often work though:(

Everytime I wake, get up and then lay down again, the little one gets all excited like we're heading out somewhere and goes bazurk! hehe funny, but sometimes just annoying when u average about 5 hours sleep a night!

Hope it gets better for you all.

Also, I have heard that the times you generally wake during the night, are possibly the times that bubs will wake for a feed etc, when they come along....

Here's to all the 3am alarms we'll be waking to!!!

i am sitting here at work with my eyes popping out of my head because i got up at 4am to go to the toilet and couldn't get back to sleep at all- next thing i know it's 6.45am and my alarm is buzzing and i'm so tired i just don't know how i'm going to make it through the day!!! very comforted when i found this thread to know i am not abnormal. can't wait to finish work as i think that adds to my anxiety and makes it even harder to sleep as i know i've gotta get up for work....it's killing me guys!!

As soon as I conceived my sleeping habits changed and so did DP's. I'm usually one to stay asleep until I wake up so I definatley feel this is my body and mind getting used to being awake at all hours.

Another thing I am even starting to notice now is that after dinner my instinct is to go straight to bed, even if I'm not particularly tired! Its like the message is get the rest now while you can, because you will be awakened later!

I have this exact problem!!

I go to the loo about 1.30am and stay awake for at least 2 hours.... I thought this was strange but I feel so awake at this time. I find if I have a warm glass of milk and some cookies, I feel better as I get really hungry if im up longer than 15mins. I usually do some reading and soon enough I feel drowsy. Does anyone know if this lasts for the rest of the pregnancy?

Hi All,

I have the same problem! surprise surprise! :lol:

yep i get up just before 12-45~1am AND then again about 3ish, for toilet run and a drink, each time takes me ages to get to sleep...especially at 1am! takes me about an hr at least!and then i can't get back to sleep because i'm hungry! so i too have been trying the warm milk and cookies thing for the last few nights and that seems to be working so far. Also i've tried staying up later... even if i'm tired at 9pm i force myself to stay up a little longer...hope it works!

But i'm luckier than most, i'm not working anymore and after DH goes to work at 6:30am i snuggle back in bed and try to get a little more sleep! I don't know how all those working mums do it! :clap:

Hearing you loud and clear... I wake every two hours - almost on the dot... worst thing is, when I wake at 11:30 I roll over and hope to see 6:00am on the clock because I feel like I have slept all night!!

Once I'm awake, I find it takes me around half an hour to 45mins (sometimes longer) to go back to sleep.

It's annoying me and really affecting my work and home life because I'm just so exhausted.

Hope it gets better for all of us really soon!!