Pregnancy and birth


Although I’m being spared any terrible nausea at the moment, I’m paying in other ways: I’m absolutely exhausted, but I’m having real trouble sleeping at night. Today I’ve been awake since before 4am and I’m shattered.

Being an internet fiend, I’ve been googling to see what’s going on. This is what I’ve found:




So far I haven’t noticed that ‘needing to wee all the time’ thing, although I was awake this morning after getting up for the loo.

I have been napping a lot during the day, and it hasn’t been affecting my ability to nod off at night, but maybe I need to try to limit my nap times and see if that helps me to stay asleep/go back to sleep. And I’m not consciously feeling a huge amount of anxiety and that isn’t really keeping me awake, but I do find it hard to switch my brain off when I have woken up – I start thinking about all the things I need to do, ranging from the mundane (vacuuming) to the macro (set up an entire charity, after our funding is confirmed).

Anyway, I’m going to try to get through today without having a long nap – I might have 45 minutes or something, but I shall set my alarm!

2 thoughts on “Insomnia

  1. Waking up and not being able to go back to sleep is horrible. The mind seems to be suffering from ADHD, hopping from one subject to another. Google ‘power nap’. I am sure I have read somewhere that if you can close your eyes and sleep for 10 minutes, it is more helpful than a longer nap during the day. I always feel like rubbish after a long an afternoon nap. In any event I hope your body sorts its sleep pattern out soon.

    1. Thanks Mum! Today my acupuncturist pretty much said not to worry too much about it and to just sleep whenever I can. I guess that’s what I’ll be doing when the baby comes along!

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