[Seah0130]

I am a first time mum. At 7 months postpartum, I started to care for my baby at night. I was awake multiple times a night to attend to my baby and to express breast milk. It was very stressful as I was extremely careful when I sleep in fear that I might wake my baby up. At the initial stage, I was able to fall back to sleep quickly. At time passes, it got harder to fall back to sleep. When I finally got help from someone to take care of my baby at night, I had anxiety when it comes to bedtime, but still able to fall asleep. As time goes by, without any disturbance, I have increasing difficulty falling and staying asleep. I barely sleep longer than one hour a night now with some sleepless nights in a row. Please help >_<

[Scott]

Hi @Seah0130!

Welcome to the forum and congratulations on your newborn! Having a baby is such an exciting time but it shouldn’t come as any surprise that it’s not uncommon to experience some sleep disruption. Generally, when the baby develops a consistent sleep routine, our sleep is restored to a more normal schedule also. When our thoughts toward sleep change and we begin to implement new behaviors to improve our sleep though, our sleep might not recover as it should.

If you can address those thoughts and behaviors that make sleep more difficult then there’s absolutely no reason to believe you can’t restore your sleep as it was before parenthood! I encourage you to review the resources on this site that outline how these evidence-based techniques can improve your sleep.

Scott J

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