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Noelle610
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Noelle, I have a question for you. Are you still on sleep meds? I was barely on them for the past month (like I would take 1/2 Ativan every 4 days), but the recent bad nights messed me up so 4 nights ago I took a full pill....now for the past 3 nights I find myself waking up every 2-3 hours which has nothing to do with Sofia
I'm scared of taking more meds and getting addicted and never being able to get off them. My DH says 1/2 pill every other night for now should be ok until Sofia's back to sttn (which she's getting close to)...but I'm sooo scared yet I need the sleep. I had 5 hours of broken sleep last night and have been up since 3:30 am!
Hi hi, yes I am. I actually just went to a follow up appointment with my doctor today. She recommended I continue taking them for a minimum of 6 more months with her preference being a year. Her reasoning was that a lack of sleep is a serious trigger for PND and I'm sleeping pretty well right now.
You may want to speak with your doctor about a different medication. At first I took Klonopin, which is very similar to Ativan (anti-anxiety) to sleep. It worked like a charm, but it is very habit forming and not really suited to every day use. I now take Trazadone and it works great! The drug was originally used for depression, but now it's basically used off-label for insomnia. It's a popular choice before something like Ativan/Klonopin or serious sleep medications like Lunesta or Ambien because it's not habit forming. You do have to reduce it gradually, but it doesn't make you "high" in any way at all. I still wake when Charlotte does too. I'm not out of it.
If your doctor doesn't really take you seriously, you may want to see your OB or a psychiatrist. Postpartum insomina is SOOO common, but sometimes medical professionals aren't super familiar with it and don't know quite how to treat it. Here's a good reference that helped me:
https://voices.yahoo.com/post-partum-insomnia-one-moms-experience-5947966.html?cat=25
Be well and take care of yourself!
starting to be more consistent at naptime helped us a lot with the kind of issues you are describing. Mine was a little younger at the time and didn't like to sleep in his bassinet during the day, so I let him sleep in his bouncy chair, but always there. I tried to be home for every nap for a few days and did a wind down and a brief routine (white noise, Twinkle Twinkle) and after several days he started napping much more predictably. Then it was much easier to get him from the bouncy chair into his bed once we had the routine. It did take a week or two though so don't give up after just a few days. Mine is the same in that he does really well with his bedtime routine and is super alert all day, so I think it really helps him to have a cue that it's time to rest.
she slept from 6:30 pm to 6:30 am exactly. She would have slept more but she was stuck in her crib again. She took a little nap as I fed her this morning and I think tomorrow if she does this I'll move her to see if she sleeps more.
