[alesharuth]

When I had my 3rd child last winter, I had NO ideas what was coming. Insomnia started with a few bad nights, then billowed into 9 months later still struggling to fall asleep … For hours..even when baby, hubby, and other children are all fast asleep. I’m wondering if this is the rest of my life?? and have started to go through the actual ‘ mourning’ process of the sleep I once had.

[Jess84]

You have trouble falling asleep not staying asleep because I can’t fall asleep only stage 1 if you call that sleep which I don’t.

Have you tried sleep restriction.

[Martin Reed]

Having a child is a common trigger for sleep disruption, and that’s probably not too surprising! Usually, our sleep recovers as the baby develops a sleep/wake schedule — but sometimes our sleep might not recover, and that’s almost always because the way we think about sleep changes, and because we often implement behaviors in a bid to improve our sleep that actually perpetuate the sleep disruption.

So, since we can see that nothing about your insomnia seems to be unusual, there’s no reason to believe that you need to live with insomnia for the rest of your life! If you can identify and address the thoughts and behaviors that make sleep difficult, you will almost certainly get your sleep back on track!

As suggested by @Jess84, you might want to start by looking into sleep restriction, which is one component of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I).

CBT-I techniques can be really helpful because they tackle the thoughts and behaviors that perpetuate sleep disruption.

I hope this helps.

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