ehausted... no sleep!!

So I am NOT sleeping. I will fall asleep around 10 then wake up at 2 in the morning and not go back to sleep. I just lie there in my bed literally wide awake, but then when its time to wake up at 7 I am so tired I want to cry. And its not even that Ryder is kicking me. Sometimes I will wake up from him moving, and last night he decided he wanted to poke at my bladder all night to the point I would wake up and have to literally RUN to the bathroom or i felt like i was going to pee the bed! UG I am so irritated I have been working 10 hour days and not sleeping. Its not a good combiniation. Yesterday I went home for lunch and just broke down and cried and cried and cried. I am just exhausted and dont know what to do! I love my little man so much but then I feel like me working so much is going to somehow hurt him. But right now I dont have a choice. it just sucks. Women should not have to work when they are pregnant I just decided!!

Call your OB. I went through this last time with Dylan. I would not be able to go to sleep till like 3 am and have to get up and 6:45 and take the kids to school/sitter and then head to work. My OB told me about some safe pills to take to help me sleep. I even took them the night before we had Dylan because I knew I would not be able to sleep.

I think they are Maximum Strength Unisom SleepGels(at least that is what is still in my cabinet)

Oh here is the BBC OK MED'S LIST. They have pills on there I took along with a few more.

http://www.babycenter.com/0_chart-over-the-counter-medications-during-pregnancy_1486462.bc

yeah my Dr said I can take Tylenol PM (he was even going to perscribe me ambien!! hell no lol) But the problem I am having is that I take it and I will still wake up around 3 or 4 and not go back to sleep. My body is weird i swear! And when I do take it I feel like I am punishing my baby lol. I feel like what if it hurts him? I know it wont but I am really weird, maybe with him being my first I dont know??? I just think things will get better when i am not under so much stress at work (which will be when i finally quit in March)

thank you I will! my DH snores too, it drives me CRAZY! I will wake him up and have full conversations with him and the next day he wont even remember. It makes me so mad cause I feel like its not fair he gets to sleep when i cant lol. Seriously though, why can guys just sleep like that? He couls sleep through a 7.0 earthquake and not remember it the next day. I wake up to a car driving outside the window! GRRR

I'm with Eve. I've been forcing myself to stay up until I literally can't keep my eyes open, and it's helped with my sleeping tremendously. I also have like 4 pillows that I make a nest out of so I don't wake up with stiff shoulders and hips. That has made a huge difference too. Good luck! At least we're getting close to waking up all night for a different reason...

Yeah, same thing here...with my DD I would get up, go into a different bedroom and read for hours, sometimes from 2-7am, but I just can't do that right now, I have to sleep to be awake not only for work, but also for my DD after work since I can't just come home and crash in the evenings like I did while pregnant with her. I have tried it both ways, staying up late, going to bed early, and I find that it all evens out, sometimes I am able to go to sleep around 8-9pm and I sleep great for several hours and then it hits me, but I figure I am going to bed earlier so I am still get some quality sleep.

I went into the hospital the night before they induced me with my DD, they offered me something to help me sleep I said "Nah, I will be fine" - HA, what a joke, I was awake the whole night, no thanks to my DH who was sleeping on the hospital pull out snoring his face off, I asked the nurse to wheel him into the hall, but she just laughed at me. This time if I have to go in the night before you bet your bottom dollar I will be asking for the sleep aids and taking them up on whatever they offer...

Thank you ladies! I stayed up as long as I could last night (only about 1120 lol) and i slept GREAT! thanks to all the suggestions!!

Yay! So glad it worked for you! I love it when I wake up 5 mins before my alarm goes off, so much better than 3 am lol. Hope you have a Merry Christmas!

God if I stay up as late as possible Ill be up till 6am...dh has grave yard shift and my normal bed time is 3 or 4 am....My internal clock is sooo screwed up!