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aww thanks for comforting me. I was also searching high and low over the internet to find mummies suffering from the same as me. All my other “real life” mummy friends didn’t have this problem and they could sleep so well. The sentence “Nap when your baby nap” didn’t annoy me so much until now. With my first baby i could really sleep whenever and wherever. I feel like for me its going to be a long road ahead too as my fear response towards not sleeping is very strong and i think with a fear like this it will take sometime to desensitize myself and to retrain my brain to think differently. YES I used to scroll phone so much before I sleep prior to having this sleep issues! I have went back to doing this now! It makes me relax abit more before bedtime! Thank you so much! I will hold on to the hope that it will get better and i will be back to normal!
Thank you for checking in!! 🙂
It’s really comforting to know that one day I don’t have to think about sleep or have any sleep related anxiety. Its really annoying and always ping-ing in the background. It’s like i think of sleep worries all day long…. God…to an extent I think I’m crazy. I kept telling myself to live in the present but to be honest it is really hard. I’m still 11 weeks postpartum, such a long way to go…
Hello may I ask if you managed to get our of this postpartum insomnia crisis?
I am currently having the exact same problem as you and Cindy.Thank you so much for your reply. Its really very comforting to know that i’m not the only one suffering this as it can really feels so so lonely (especially when your whole family, including your newborn is soundly asleep). Previously the psych prescribed me antidepressant (dothiepin hcl) along with zopiclone. OHMYGOD. ZOPICLONE DID NOT KNOCK ME OUT. It just made me really drowsy the next day and my anxiety and panic attacks went through the roof. So she next prescribed me clonazapam and I could finally sleep (~5-6hours, without my body jerking me up and felt more calm!)The thing for clonazapam is that is is addictive, so at the beginning I only took it once every 3 days. Once my panic attacks stopped, I kind of wean myself off this. Its been around a week since I took any clonazapam. I am still taking dothiepin in the background. I can go to bed at around 9.30pm, take super long to fall asleep and just drift in and out of sleep, sometimes taking super long to fall back asleep. I don’t even know if I slept because I became such a light sleeper! (I used to sleep like a log). I feel like I am a lighter sleeper than my dog now. HAHA! One light sound could jerk me up!
I watched all of Martin’s video while my newborn is asleep and I really feel so much better. He is really God-sent. But the thing is my mind just keeps playing with me, like I know all the logics and facts about sleep drive, sleep pressure and all sorts that was mentioned in the video. It make so much sense but, my broken mind just refuse to listen and telling me otherwise. Every waking moment I just become so obsessed with sleep (even though I tried accepting these thoughts) and I even look at my daughter sleeping soundly and I am so jealous of her being able to sleep! Hahahha.
Gosh this is so dreadful, but the improvement is that I no longer feared my bed. I actually really look forward to lying down on my bed every night as im so tired. (but just couldnt.. sleep or stay asleep.) HELP!
Yes I ordered the book after i read your post yesterday! Waiting for its arrival! =
I know this differs for different people but may I ask when did you start sleeping better and feeling better? Eg. how many months after postpartum?
Thank you in advanced! <3
Thank you so so so much for sharing. This really uplifted me. I am 10 weeks postpartum with my second child and suffering from the exact same thing you and Cindy went through. I didnt experienced this with my first child. Anyway, the funny thing is, nothing is wrong with my children. They slept so well, but I just couldn’t. This started right after the birth of my second born. I spiraled into pp depression and even have suicidal thoughts (of course I didn’t do it because the thought of leaving my husband and children behind stopped me. So at week 6 I couldn’t handle the daily panic attacks and insomnia I went to see a psychiatrist and am now on antidepressant, (which she mentioned would take about 2mths to see the full benefit). The thought of even sleep would sky rocket my anxiety and send me into panic attacks. Its been week 5 of taking it and I feel alot better. I no longer have negative thoughts but my sleep is still really bad. And throughout the day, my broken brain would continuously fire up sleep anxiety thoughts which is holy heck annoying! I tried to ignore or to address them but it’s useless. It’s constantly there oh god. It’s like my brain is broken. So thank you for sharing your story! I do hope my traumatised brain could eventually recover and I could eventually sleep again, without having hypnic jerks or fragmented sleep.
