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Seriously? Lie awake. Surf Hb on my phone. Shop online. Organize the nursery and clean the house.

I get angry! haha, but really, it's been an on and off problem through the whole pregnancy and I have no good solutions. It's transitioned now from being unable to fall asleep, sometimes for hours, to waking every 1.5 hours or so. I prefer it this way actually. I try to stay away from my phone because of the light, but will sometimes read, or move to the other room/couch. Sometimes a change of venue helps.

We do our Bradley relaxation techniques right before bedtime. I also use doTerra lavender essential oil on my feet and back of my neck...knocks me right out. I do wake up around 4-5am cause baby girl thinks it's a good time to get her workout, but it's a lot better than being awake for HOURS which is what used to happen. Once she settles down I usually can squeeze in a few more hours. Now that I'm almost 39 weeks though, I'm starting to get those bursts of energy in the middle of the night and all I can do is clean, clean, clean during that time.

I would be up literally all night some nights. I would be able to nap during the day with no problem but actually going to bed at night just didn't happen. it was awful.

@grizz: I usually do music. I bought some of those "spa" music CDs at Target and that's what we use. Sometimes if I'm exhausted during the day but can't sleep I'll listen to white noise and that helps me relax and get some sleep, but it takes forever. I'm not a super huge fan of white noise.

Toss and turn, read HB, laid there, folded laundry, wrote emails, read a book. I honestly got more sleep once DD arrived than in the months leading up to it.

Laid there thankfully I didn't have it often

@BeachMama: My OB prescribed Ambien to me around 34-35 weeks because I was a total wreck- I couldn't seem to sleep more than 2 hours at a time, and couldn't get to sleep, and I was a total depressed mess.

HB surfing, etsy shopping, staring at my sleeping DH, tossing, turning, moaning because I was so dang uncomfortable.....but in the end the thing that worked to put me back to sleep was Undercover Boss. I'd konk out in like five minutes if I put that show on. Any other show was too interesting, but I guess I just find Undercover Boss to be a snoozefest.

My problem is, my third tri nausea is what keeps me awake. so I can't really do anything productive either, just lie there/sit there and feel like shit. A few times I have taken a half a unisom and that helps the nausea and knocks me out. I did it last night and feel like a new person this morning!