I'm 30 weeks and I'm consistently waking up at about 4.30-5.00am with a pressure on my bladder. I'm assuming this is when the wee bugger is waking up and starts moving around too and so this is also waking me up. Until I got pregnant I was always the sort of person who could fall right back asleep but it seems that recently as soon as I wake up I'm WIDE awake...
I've tried:
- Going to bed earlier (a bit better but I tend to wake up exponentially earlier, so, about 2am and then still can't sleep...)
- Lying in bed and trying to will myself to sleep (yeah this doesn't work til about half an hour before my alarm goes off)
- Getting up, having a cup of tea and doing something (doesn't make me any sleepier...)
- Not drinking after 8pm (doesn't work and I get so thirsty about 10pm - assuming I'm not already in bed by then!!)
This morning was particularly bad as a week of bad sleep caught up with me and I had to tell my boss I would be in a couple of hours later to try and catch up. She understood (in fact had suggested this to me a few weeks ago) but the 45 mins or so I got just wasn't good enough.
I just feel like I'm going mad at this point. It still happens at the weekend so it's not a work stress related thing. My boss said yesterday 'it's practice for when the baby comes' but realistically when the baby comes I'll be able to sleep in the day when she has a nap - something I can't exactly do now. I'm not in a strenuous job (think desk and computer) but it's really getting me down.