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I hit a particularly rough patch with sleeping right around the same time. Waking up every hour to pee, really achey and hard to get comfortable, hungry and had to get a snack, etc. I'd try to sleep as long as I could in bed, but would usually end up coming out to the couch around 3-4 am most mornings. So you have my sympathies - it's rough!

Sometimes I'd be able to drink a glass of milk and pass out again on the couch, and sometimes I'd just be wide awake, so I'd read or listen to a book on tape or watch netflix until I got drowsy again....which sometimes wasn't until like 10 am I just had to become ok with getting my sleep throughout the day too and not stressing out about not sleeping well at night. And a lot of times just the change of position to the couch, or the fat/protein from the glass of milk would be enough to help me get back to sleep.

I will say that I slept the worst while I was self-limiting my activity to prevent preterm labor. Now that I'm 37+ weeks and am more active, I'm still uncomfortable at night, but have been sleeping much harder for the last week or so.

@Shimmer: Awwww ((hugs)). As a fellow non-sleeper here, I hate this for you! I am 31 weeks and having a reeeeeally hard time sleeping at night, so I can't imagine how much harder it must be with twins!

I am just.not.comfortable. Period. And my discomfort seems to grow the longer the day is, so it is super hard to get comfortable enough to fall asleep at night (I think I am currently averaging 4-5 hours on a good night). Add in butterbean's wonderful, but disruptive, nightly dance parties, DH's sometimes awful snoring, and two kitties amping up the heat in bed, and it is a pretty awesome cocktail for insomnia.

The hardest part for me has been logging 12-15 hour days for the past 3 weeks at work - I feel like a zombie on the weekends, and spend a lot of time trying to nap and make up for the sleep defecit.

To entertain myself when I wake up (so as not to disrupt DH or the kitties), I keep my iPad by the bed so I can read and try to fall back asleep.