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Hi Martin,
Thank you for your response. First my goal is to sleep for longer stretches more consistently (things have improved with your sleep training) and sleep through the night without waking up. I guess I also just want to be less anxious about my sleep.
The challenge I have is with the idea of restricting my sleep. For example if I’m sleeping an average of 6.5 hours per night and I want to wake up at 7a I would add 30 minutes and go to bed at 12:00a. This feels so late. And I guess I worry that if I had a hard time falling asleep I’d be getting even less.
All that being said since following you I have stopped trying to go to bed as early as possible and am pushing my bed time a little later and this has helped. I just don’t want to be up until midnight.
Thank you,
DaniRyan and Chee thank you so much for your responses. Ryan I am sorry that your wife went through this I hope she is doing better. Thank you for the recommendations-I do take some magnesium and melatonin before going to bed at night but had not thought of doing that when I wake up. Our son sleeps pretty well through the night but he is still sleeping in our room. The main barrier to moving him to his nursery has just been my anxiety-I’m worried that having him in a separate room will make me more anxious and make it harder to sleep and I keep hoping I’ll get several nights good sleep and be ready to move him-but I am realizing this is faulty thinking. Thank you for the reminder to take the pressure off going back to sleep and remember I am still getting benefits from just resting.
Chee-thank you for the link and the encouragement to keep living my life. This is a new concept since I’ve been getting involved with Martin’s work. I’ve had this belief and feeling that I just can’t enjoy my life right now because of insomnia and I get anxious making plans with friends or other moms because “what if I don’t sleep the night before.” Despite this I have had the experience of doing social things after not sleeping and actually feeling better because it shifts my attention to something else.
