ok soo im pregnant with my first and im in my 3rd month now and im reading how ur always tried and bla bla bla... but im always tired in the day but i can never sleep at night. ive tried swithching my schedule and everything so i can sleep at night but it just doesnt work. what should i do.. is my baby going to be born and be up all hours of the night and sleep all day? HELP!
2006-08-23 06:02:48 · 11 answers · asked by dOll FaCe 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
Your sleep and awake schedule while pregnant will not affect your baby's schedule at all. It is quite common to be tired while pregnant, especially in the first and third trimester. It is also quite common for newborns to have "their days and nights mixed up" even babies born to moms who don't have sleeping trouble. Most babies will adjust naturally, but you can help the process by letting your baby sleep only 2-3 hour stretches during the day and then getting him up out of his crib. You may not be able to really wake him up, but you can gently disturb his sleep cycle by undressing him a little, gently rubbing his feet, letting people hold him. Turn on the TV, play the radio, vacuum, do all the normal daytime things while he is sleeping. This will get him out of a deep sleep during the day. At night, attend to his needs very perfunctorily. Change and feed him when he wakes at night in a quiet, dark room with little talking. Take care of business and go back to bed. Letting him cry for a few minutes at a time will not hurt him. If your schedule allows it, right now you should sleep when you are tired and if you aren't tired, get out of bed and find another activity, such as read a book or listen to soothing music until you feel tired. Try not to take a lot of naps during the day. If you must rest, keep the nap short.
2006-08-23 06:19:47 · answer #1 · answered by sevenofus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's too early to affect the baby just yet. I'm also prego with my first and I've been reading that your baby is supposed to be lulled to sleep when your active and then the baby will get all energetic when you're trying to rest...
I have noticed that when I lay down to sleep at night...I get a lot of kicking for a little bit and then he settles down and I think we both go to sleep...and during the day and early evening he kicks up a storm through out the day...
So basically I think everyone's different and every baby is different...frankly..."Schedules" can be changed...so even if your baby ends up being "noctornal"...lol...you'll be able to break him of it...It's just like changing your sleep schedule.
Right now the important thing...is YOU getting enough rest...worry about the baby's sleep patterns a little later...when he's less of a tadpole and more of a baby...lol
Your body is going through ridiculous stresses and changes right now...you need your rest, no matter what time of day or night you get it...pregnancy makes you do some crazy stuff.
Its good to read and educate yourself...but again everyone and every pregnancy and every baby is different...so take in all that information and then use your own good sense to apply it to your life....don't just take the books as "commandments"
2006-08-23 06:12:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
newborn baby's get up every 2 to 3 hours they have no sense of night AND day til they are a few months old. A new baby HAS to be feed every 2-4 hours if your newborn sleeps more then 4 hours the doctor will tell you to WAKE them up to feed "most never sleep past 4 hours." Once they are about 6 months they tend to get a good ideal of day and night and can sleep for 6 to 8 hours just fine,
2006-08-23 06:12:10 · answer #3 · answered by ally'smom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The way you sleep now should not really affect the baby. The baby will sleep all day and all night when its first born. But the way you sleep after its born WILL affect how it sleeps. So try to get it to gether before it comes.
2006-08-23 06:09:11 · answer #4 · answered by biscuit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The baby usually sleeps more during the day when you are walking around because it rosks the baby to sleep. It doesn't really matter because their schedules get all messed up when they are born.
2006-08-23 06:05:23 · answer #5 · answered by Melissa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you are up has nothing to do with the babies schedule, as a matter of fact if you notice (when you can start to feel him move) he actually will sleep the most when you are moving, the swaying rocks him to sleep, you will notice that the more still you are the more awake he will be and vice versa GOOD LUCK
2006-08-23 06:08:10 · answer #6 · answered by rye252000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it does. The way to get to sleep at night is set a time for getting up in the morning and keep to that. Eventually you will figure out what time you need to go to bed to keep getting up at the same hour.
I do believe that the time the mom keeps is the time the baby will keep.
2006-08-23 06:07:54 · answer #7 · answered by T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be prepared to sleep when the baby sleeps. There is no such thing as a schedule with a newborn.
2006-08-23 06:06:43 · answer #8 · answered by noggle4 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i wouldn't worry about it. baby's have odd schedules when they are born no matter how routine you are/were during pregnancy.
just relax and enjoy the early part of prgnancy, b/c lemme tell ya!
once you get a few weeks away from d-day.....well, that's when the real insomnia and miserable-ness kicks in:)
i can't sleep anytime b/c i'm so uncomfortable, i wake up and my fingers tingle from being swollen....there's no such thing as bending over to pick ANYTHING up!!!
sorry, i'm getting distracted:)
just relax and get rest when you can....you'll need it to grow that baby!
take care.
2006-08-23 06:12:18 · answer #9 · answered by joey322 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The baby will let you know his/her sleeping schedule....just sleep when the baby sleeps....
2006-08-23 06:10:24 · answer #10 · answered by LeeLynn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋