Posted by mrst on March 19, 2009 at 06:17:45:

This is a weird problem to post about. I've had insomnia off and on since my pregnancy. My little son did not sleep properly (long stretches) until he was past his 1st birthday. My son is now almost 18 months old. It's been particularly bad in the past five months. I found that after he was sleeping well, I could no longer sleep. I have a terrible anxiety build up during the night that he will wake up now, or that his usual wake up time will come, and I only have X number of hours left to get sleep. My husband usually checks up on him in the night now, and helps out in the mornings and lets me rest for an hour before he leaves for work now. I still feel panicked about not being able to sleep as late I choose now though. Before I was a SAHM, I never had this anxiety about waking for work, so I don't know what the deal is. I've tried out a number of medications over the past 5 months for this, and they really don't help. My mind is still racing at night, worried about my next day, only with meds I'm thinking about it heavily drugged. Is there something else I could try to relax and help me sleep?

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