Get Better Sleep And Find Natural Remedies To Cure Insomnia
My daughter is a year old and I’m starting to have trouble with her morning naps. Quite often she will wake up after only 30 minutes. Should I switch to one nap a day or is that too soon? I’m afraid if I do she’ll be really cranky in the evenings.
My 8 week old baby has recently (within the past three weeks) started napping for only 45 minutes. She only takes three or so naps per day and is obviously still tired upon wakening. She becomes fussy and overtired within a few minutes of waking up. I’ve tried to soothe her back to sleep and have even let her cry for 5 minutes upon wakening but she will not go back to sleep. I’ve tried feeding her after she wakes up thinking that was the reason but she’s not hungry. Because of these short naps, her awake time is limited and she tires very quickly (cannot stay up longer than an hour without becoming fussy). Most of the time she falls asleep for her naps on her own in the crib if I catch her at just the right time. In the evenings she is extremely fussy because she is over-tired. After getting her to sleep, night sleep is not an issue as she is sleeping 6-7 hour stretches. Is there anything I can do to extend her nap time? Any reason why she is doing this?
There’s this job that I’m trying to get that is from 10:30 pm to 6 am. It PAYS, it’s a piece of cake, and I’m more of a night owl than a morning person anyways. However, I don’t see when I would get all my sleep really….. I have school at 1:40pm so I at least need to be awake by 1pm. By the time I drive home and everything from the job, it’d be around 7AM. So I’d have approx 6 hours of sleep (give or take, because I tend to lay there for a long time before I actually fall asleep) before school. Actually probably less than that if I want to eat lunch. I get out of school at 3:15, and home around 3:40 (the traffic is awful). Then sometime in the evening (very flexible and not necessary a specified time I need to be there, but it takes at least 3 hours) I need to go out to the barn and clean stalls (my other job). I don’t necessarily need to do this every single evening, but at least 4 times a week.
So right now my schedule is:
1:40 pm – school
3:15 – get out of school
3:40 – get home
5-8 pm – clean stalls (although again, I don’t do this every single evening, just four evenings a week give or take a few).
3 AM – bed time ;-]
So I do have a lot of free time, however, I don’t know when I would get all my sleep. I would be able to get 5-6 hours of sleep before school, and possible squeeze in 2-3 hours of sleep after school somehow to get my full 8 hours (although I normally like to go for 10 hours or so LOL ;-]
But my problem is, can I still get through enough REM cycles when I split up my sleep into sections like that? a sleep cycle is 90 minutes, correct? I’m just worried that I can’t really split my sleep up like this and still allow my body to go through what it needs to go through during sleep.
BTW I’m an 18 year old female… if my diet is relevant, I’m a vegetarian, and I don’t take vitamins. Oh, and as far as medications, I take Zoloft.
LOL and now it’s gone because someone reported it so you look like your on crack because you’re making a comment about nothing LOL!!!
Did it cause you to have any sleeping trouble–insomnia or waking up every couple hrs or so–and justfeeling tired in general?
also aside from actual hot flashes-did you just feel relly hotter in the evenings?? any relief suggestions?thank you
I’m in desperate need of some sleep, but I have an adverse reaction to Benadryl. I can’t get in to see my doctor for several weeks, so until then, I need something I can take 1-2 evenings each week. I’ve tried melatonin, with no luck
Which is better? Sleep 7 hours and no extra exercise or Sleep 5 hours and jog 3miles?
Will the healthy benefits compensate for lost sleep? I already jog 2x a week in the evenings but if I got up early I could add 3 more days exercise?
