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Yep! Mine is also caused by anxiety! I go through like 2 weeks of normal sleep and then a crappy week. This week was my crappy week and I stayed awake 48 hrs with no sleep. And sleeping pills do not touch it, I took 4 sleeping pills and it obviously disnt work. I know it is anxiety because my mind races and I start obsessing over anything. I don't have any help because I'm still suffering but I feel your pain!

I'm the same way, unfortunately. LO sleeps through the night, but I don't. I'm up several times and then I'm pretty much awake for the day by 5am, while LO doesn't wake until around 7. I hate it.

I definitely think it's caused by anxiety so yesterday I went to talk to my doctor about it and she prescribed me Lexapro. I normally hate medicating a problem, but I'm not sure what else to do. I'm eating a pretty healthy diet, exercising regularly and getting to bed early/giving myself time to "wind-down" from the day, so I'm kind of at the end of my rope.

Had a lot of trouble sleeping throughout pregnancy. But it was usually caused by various symptoms: heartburn, needing to pee a million times, and then once I get woken up I have a hard time falling back asleep.

Tonight was a doozy. I slept from 10-2, and then was awake from 2-5, and then I'm up again at 7 and figured I should just get up for the day now that it is starting to get light out.

Yes! Lately I have been laying awake at night thinking about everything! Getting way too used to the dull tired headache

I have terrible insomnia. Even when LO is sleeping I find myself awake, tossing and turning in bed. It gives me anxiety because I know that I need the sleep and any minute LO will be waking for a feeding. She wakes up pretty early too, so I am dragging all day. every day. No fun.

I think us new (or not new) mommies just have too much going on in our heads to really settle down enough to sleep well.

I got really bad insomnia after my mum passed away in July that was definitely anxiety based; because we are soon TTC the doctor did not want to put me on meds. I ended up doing acupuncture which worked a charm. I still get random occurrences of it (like Thursday night, the night before my sister's birthday and the first one that Mum hasn't been around for) but I know that I can deal with the anxiety - I woke DH up to give me a cuddle and talk to me about stoats (something completely different to take my mind off things)

Yep, I have insomnia too and it is also anxiety related. I have had problems with sleeping since childhood. I go through phases.