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alexlynn7
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i've heard about fatigue early on - anyone have INSOMNIA?
i should preface this by saying that i was never the best sleeper... but this is ridiculous. i am working the night shift and when i get home i can't sleep more than 3-4 hours! at first i thought the insomnia was just from having to change my internal clock, etc. but now this is my second week, and i still can't sleep!!
i feel like everyone experiences fatigue early on in pregnancy, but for me it's the opposite.
has anyone else had this experience? what did you do to make it better?
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Re: i've heard about fatigue early on - anyone have INSOMNIA?
Posted by alexlynn7
i should preface this by saying that i was never the best sleeper... but this is ridiculous. i am working the night shift and when i get home i can't sleep more than 3-4 hours! at first i thought the insomnia was just from having to change my internal clock, etc. but now this is my second week, and i still can't sleep!!
i feel like everyone experiences fatigue early on in pregnancy, but for me it's the opposite.
has anyone else had this experience? what did you do to make it better?
I was exhausted and sleeping tons up until ~10 weeks maybe. Ever since then (besides when I was sick), I can't sleep at all. Can't fall asleep, can't stay asleep.  It's so frustrating! I'm not a great sleeper to begin with, and I can't sleep on my stomach any more...it makes it nearly impossible for me to get even 6 hours a night. I just don't sleep.
So I can definitely feel your pain, and don't have any advice, unfortunately!
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Re: i've heard about fatigue early on - anyone have INSOMNIA?
Yes. waking up multiple times in the night.....not falling back asleep....oh yes
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Re: i've heard about fatigue early on - anyone have INSOMNIA?
I notice that I have great sleeping nights and then I have insomnia nights. In the beginning I couldnt sleep at all. I was actually happy for the fatigue to kick in.
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Re: i've heard about fatigue early on - anyone have INSOMNIA?
I had insomnia for most of my PG
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Re: i've heard about fatigue early on - anyone have INSOMNIA?
In the beginning no... but since the 2nd trimester I've become the queen of insomnia!
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Re: i've heard about fatigue early on - anyone have INSOMNIA?
In my first trimester, I had no trouble falling asleep (which, before, had been a problem for me.) But I had a terrible time staying asleep. I'd wake up, sometimes for a few hours, and sometimes I'd be SOOO hungry that I'd have to get up and make a snack.
For me, too, a lot of it was anxiety, about the pregnancy, and I'd find myself stressing about something bad happening to DH or my family. I couldn't turn off my brain, and that made it a lot harder to fall back to sleep.
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dm24angel
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Re: i've heard about fatigue early on - anyone have INSOMNIA?
Horrible! At the begining it was REAL bad, got better, is bad again. 
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alexlynn7
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Re: i've heard about fatigue early on - anyone have INSOMNIA?
thanks, girls. i feel so much better. sometimes i don't know what i would do without this website 
my husband and i are trying to work out a switch, where he would take the rest of my night shift and i would work days for him. that might help me get on a normal sleep schedule - i mean, at least i would be going to sleep when my body thinks it's supposed to.
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jameswife
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Re: i've heard about fatigue early on - anyone have INSOMNIA?
My 2nd trimester was exactly like that! I never really slept more than 4 or 5 hours a night and I was constantly tossing and turning the whole night. It's gotten so much better in the last few weeks....I'm 27 weeks now.
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Re: i've heard about fatigue early on - anyone have INSOMNIA?
Alex,
My first trimester of my first pg was a bad case of insomnia 
With this pg, now in my second trimester and for the past 2 weeks I haven't stayed awake past 8:30
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| Posted 2/12/07 8:09 PM |
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Re: i've heard about fatigue early on - anyone have INSOMNIA?
I was a professional sleeper before I was pregnant. I slept 8 or so hours every night solidly. At about week 5 I started waking up to go to the bathroom around 2-3am every night, some nights I can't fall back to sleep and it drives me nuts.
It's just starting to get better now and if wake up I can usually drift right off again.
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alexlynn7
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Re: i've heard about fatigue early on - anyone have INSOMNIA?
Posted by dooodles
Alex,
My first trimester of my first pg was a bad case of insomnia
With this pg, now in my second trimester and for the past 2 weeks I haven't stayed awake past 8:30
DONNA!!!!!!! i had no idea you were pregnant!!!!!!!!! CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!
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