Baby sleeping more at night (yay!) but now I can't sleep!

[BlingyGal]

Hi moms,
My almost six month old is finally sleeping more at night, she typically feeds twice per night, around 1-2am and 5-6am. My husband is wonderful and gives her a bottle of BM at the 1-2am feeding so I can try and sleep longer but my ability to sleep for more than 4-5 hours is gone.

Just about every night, I wake up an hour after falling asleep and then I'll wake up numerous times through out the night until around 330am at which point I can't fall back asleep until 430-5am when it's her feeding time. I'm so frustrated with myself! And I'm so tired and it's really getting me down. My entire pregnancy I had difficulty sleeping, I feel like I haven't slept well for more than a year. I'm starting to get uptight about it.

Anyone else experiencing this?

 

[Loobs]

I've lost my ability to sleep too. DS is just 12 weeks, and has been sleeping around 9 hours overnight for a week. I just don't sleep before midnight. When he wakes between 5am and 6am for milk, he goes back to sleep. I don't! That's not taking into consideration the amount of times I wake and check on him. I'm exhausted but I just can't sleep anymore! I think my body has adapted to not need as much sleep, it must has got used to those early weeks when sleep was scarce! Hope it comes back!

 

[hlynne]

I almost wrote a post like this about a month ago. My son has been sleeping really good (9-10 hours straight for the past month) but I couldn't sleep longer than 4 hours straight. Then once I woke up it would take almost 2 hours to get back to sleep. I think I kept waiting in my mind for him to wake up. Once he was consecutively sleeping well for a few weeks I finally was able to sleep 6-7 hours straight. This only started last week though and it isn't every night. I think it will just take time since we were so used to waking so often. At least I hope so!

 

[pansorie]

Yup, going through that right now. My daughter started STTN about two weeks ago, and I find myself constantly waking up, and I usually go and check her. Even within 10 minutes of laying her down I am running back into the room to make sure she is breathing. I wish I was more like my hubby, he's pretty laid back and happy that she is STTN. She even slept through us having some sexy times! She has turned into quite the heavy sleeper.

 

[RaquelDee]

You certainly aren't alone. Bub is three months old and generally has a really good stretch of sleep from her 10.30 dreamfeed until after 5am. But can I enjoy this? Not at all! I guess I've gotten very used to listening for her, as the slightest noise now wakes me up and I can't get back to sleep for what feels like a very long time. Between this and my pregnancy insomnia, it has been ages since I've slept for more than 3-4 hours in a row.

 

[BlingyGal]

Thanks for all the responses! There's some comfort in knowing I'm not alone. I get very stressed out when I don't sleep and then I start to get anxious.

 

[k4th]

Yep - same here.

I can promise you that it will pass though - it did for me with dd (although my ability to lie in - even when staying away from dd - has been limited to 9am since having her )

I think it's a bit of anxiety (checking on them, waking for every sound) mixed with being overtired ourselves!! The saying "sleep breeds sleep" applies to us as well as babies. Maybe try a couple of early nights - the more sleep you get, the more you might be able to drift off more easily.

It is frustrating though! Ds slept from 10pm-6am for the first time on Saturday night. I was awake at 1am, 2.30am, 3.30am, 4.30am & I sat awake from 5.30am waiting for him to wake up

 

[LavenderLove]

You're certainly not alone! I'm the same way. When DD started sleeping through we counted ourselves extremely lucky she did so so quickly, but then I couldn't sleep! Couldn't fall asleep quickly and woke frequently. I think it's a combination of anxiety and being trained to wake every couple of hours from those first few weeks.