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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP-Reviving this thread again since I’ve tried more exercise, taking melatonin, and taking Tylenol when I wake up in the night and none of these things seem to be helping. I woke up at 1am last night since the baby stirred and wanted the pacifier back in her mouth. I was just starting to drift back asleep at 4am when she stirred again and I firmly said to my husband please go tend to her as I was just staring to sleep but am now back up again. It’s now 5am and I’ve been up since 1am. My husband went back to sleep instantly after helping the baby with the pacifier. I woke him up again shortly thereafter to express how at the end of my rope I am with not being able to sleep at night and that he needs to take over on any baby wake ups. Yeah I’m not proud of waking him up but I was pissed at this point and I’ve been telling him for weeks now about sleep issues. He was a complete baby about it and told me I was scaring him. I basically said he needs to man up if that was scaring him but that I was done with these wake-ups since I’m an insomniac and he has no problem falling back asleep easily. How can I get back on track with my sleep? I feel like my sleep has been interrupted for so long I don’t know what’s day and night anymore. I can tell my body is so confused. [/quote]

Respectfully, "sleep training" isn't just for babies. There are techniques you can use to condition yourself to get back to sleep; you shouldn't need to stay up for 4 hours. New baby sleep waking is biologically-appropriate, however annoying. Teach your kid how to soothe without a pacifier (you'll thank me later, both in the toddler phase and the orthodontia phase). Teach yourself how to count backwards from 1000 and fall asleep. Get a meditation app with sleep stories, like Calm. Get a white noise machine so minor noises don't wake you.

And tell the father of that kid to take his turn(s). Men are so crap when it comes to this! The least he can do is "help".[/quote]

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