Get Better Sleep And Find Natural Remedies To Cure Insomnia
I get 8-9 hours of sleep a night but I experience extreme drowsiness during the day and find myself dozing off during class. When I wake up from those naps I’m not refreshed. Any ideas?
Okay so i know there are a couple of different methods people use to get around sleeping a full night(four hours then a few 20 min. naps later on throughout the day) but say i am going to sleep late and waking up early would it be better to just stay up and get say three hours of sleep rather then four? The other morning i woke up at eight after going to bed at probably four but then i went back to bed till noon and when i woke up at 12 i seemed more tired then when i woke up at eight… I dont know if this has to do with waking up during REM sleep cycles or what…
On Friday night I stayed up all night. Saturday morning I slept from 10AM-1: 30PM with on and off naps until like 3PM. Last night I went to bed at 9:30 and I fell asleep, I was awake by 1AM so I kept my eyes closed, by 3AM I got annoyed went on the computer. 6AM I turned off the computer. I don’t know when I fell asleep but I remember waking up at 10AM and falling asleep and then 12PM and falling asleep and then finally at 3PM I stayed up, between 12 and 3 I was sleeping and awake about 6 times.
I need to be up by 6:30 AM tomorrow. I don’t have a clue as to how I am going to get some sleep. I’m still a little bit tired now but that isn’t going to last until tonight.
BTW its 7:45PM EST
i don’t have benadryl and that doesn’t even make me tired. i swear i could take benadryl before school and be fine all day—idk if thats normal but benadryl doesn’t make me tired.
He uses it to fall asleep before his 2 naps. He doesn’t use it as much before bedtime. I’m looking for helpful advice from kind mothers. Thank you.
I just can’t sleep at night! In the day, I’m exhausted, I won’t wake up until 4pm, and then I’d take half an hour naps then too. I feel tired, and I tried putting music on and I just. can’t. sleep. Where I am right now, its 2.26 am, and I woke up at 5pm after sleeping at 8.30am. I don’t wanna take any hard-core pills where I’d be knocked out for 12 hours straight or anything. Earlier I fell asleep listening to a song, but then I woke up about 20 minutes later and after that I couldn’t go to sleep. Just suggest some cures, and if there is a pill that’s not too strong,please tell me what it is. 
Thanks in advance. x
hey, ‘peace’, nope i dont work at midnight, not under any stress (that i am aware of) and thanks, good luck to you too.
I don’t know why, but for the past half year I’ve had difficulty falling and staying asleep, and when I do it’s never deep sleep. I’ve tried not taking naps in the afternoon for the last couple of days, and instead I get huge headaches and am so tired it’s a challenge staying awake. But when night finally comes around, I’m not sleepy and I have difficulty sleeping as usual. How can I sleep through the night?
Help! My 14 month old son has been sleeping through the night since he was 3 months old, in his own room since he was 5 months old. He started walking at about 11 months and has never had problems sleeping even while teething. Recently, the last 2 months or so, he has stopped napping almost completely. If I lay him down for a nap he will scream until he makes himself sick. The only time he will nap now is when I lay down with him, once he is asleep I get up but he will only sleep for about 30 minutes. If I lay with him for his entire nap sometimes he will sleep for 2 hours or more. We are also having problems getting him to sleep at night, I have been laying him down awake for months with no problem until now. The screaming at naptime has also carried over to bedtime, and he will cry for hours if I let him. He also wakes up crying in the morning and from naps. I start his bedtime routine at 8 and he finally falls asleep around 11, is up at 7 and then sleeps with me until 10. Any ideas?
My son has always been a very happy content baby, until these sleep problems started. Now he seems to be very ill and cranky all the time and has also become very clingy(he has always been a mamas boy but now it is extreme, doesn’t want anything to do with anyone but me). If I do get him to take a nap, after he wakes up crying he is impossible the rest of the day( wanting to be held, crying if I put him down) until bedtime and then the bedtime fight begins. There is nothing wrong with him medically, I think he is just not getting enough sleep. he averages about 10 hrs a night but does not nap everyday) How can I get him to sleep more when he is fighting it so much. Full-time co-sleeping is not an option, we both sleep terrible when we co-sleep(we are too aware of the other person and sleep very lightly).
Thanks for the input so far, Nothing has changed recently. I am a stay at home mom and my husband works all the time so I can stay home and raise our child. No changes except his sleep pattern.
Sometimes he will sleep for ever it seems like. I just don’t remember my other two sleeping this much at a time during the day. He sleep for about 3 or more hours at a time but naps less often.
My daughter will be two in June and she used to be so easy to get to go to sleep. But now she wont stay in bed and my husband made the mistake of putting a movie on for her to fall asleep to a few weeks ago. She wants to watch a movie every night to fall asleep to. And now naps she wants to watch movies also. I don’t know what to do to get her to go to sleep on her own again?
i have indulged my lil 7 month old boy lately and have been cuddling him off to sleep or he will fall asleep on the boob. He goes off to sleep in only a minute or 2 in my arms and settles into the cot just fine, but the problem is that he will wake up after his first 40minute REM cycle and i either have to re-rock or cuddle him back to sleep or he just doesn’t go back to sleep at all.
I know it is totally my own fault but now i need to get him out of this habit. I used the cry it out with my other boy at 7 months but he was never a problem in the daytime, he would sleep for 2 hours at a time but his problem was getting him to sleep in the first place. My new baby is the other way around, he won’t stay asleep for more than 40 minutes (occasionally but not often) so he has 3-4 x 40 min naps a day where i would like him to have 2 x 1.5-2 hour sleeps
My question is, if i let him cry to sleep in the day and it works and he goes off to sleep BUT he still wakes up after 40 mins, do i leave him be & let him cry till he goes back to sleep again to teach him he has to sleep for longer or how long do i let him cry for before i get him out of bed?
And yes i have tried other methods to get him to sleep but he ends up screaming anyway cos i’m not holding him, so i figured letting him cry it out without me in the room isn’t going to be much different.
thanks
I’ve read some article(s) about how new study shows that taking an hour of nap after learning something increases chances of remembering the material. Do you think or know for a fact that maybe having 2-hr naps every 6 hrs in a day (adds up to 8 hr of sleeping time), is better than 8-straight-hrs of sleep in a day? Is it worse? Or makes no difference?
I wonder if anyone could help me. Here’s the thing: i’ve been in school break for two months now and that means i usually go to bed at about 2 am, and I usually wake up with an alarm clock at 11 for breakfast then lunch immediately after breakfast. My problem is that I have problems sleeping, I usually stay an hour or two in bed trying to get some sleep and so I really have a hard time getting 2 sleep. Second thing is when my alarm sounds at 11 I wake up but I cant manage to get up and I immediately fall asleep. I have tried listening to music with my headphones in bed in order to stay awake but I still fall asleep again.
Anyone could help me dealing with these falling asleep/waking up problems???
I can’t get up earlier since I know it’s not worth it, I prefer sleeping. And I never take naps.
On Friday night I stayed up all night. Saturday morning I slept from 10AM-1: 30PM with on and off naps until like 3PM. Last night I went to bed at 9:30 and I fell asleep, I was awake by 1AM so I kept my eyes closed, by 3AM I got annoyed went on the computer. 6AM I turned off the computer. I don’t know when I fell asleep but I remember waking up at 10AM and falling asleep and then 12PM and falling asleep and then finally at 3PM I stayed up, between 12 and 3 I was sleeping and awake about 6 times.
I need to be up by 6:30 AM tomorrow. I don’t have a clue as to how I am going to get some sleep. I’m still a little bit tired now but that isn’t going to last until tonight.
BTW its not 7:30PM EST
i had my eyes closed for two hours last night and i was wide awake
oh lol i made a typo "its not 7:30" i dont know where that not came from it is 7:30
My boy has slept wonderfully since the day he was born. At around 2 months he started sleeping through the night, always for 8-9 hours, plus naps during the day.
During the last month, he has been getting up at least once, sometimes twice during the night. Sometimes we can feed him and he goes right back to sleep, sometimes he just cries for a while.
At first I thought that he was going through a growth spurt and he just needed some extra food but he hasn’t grown and it has been going on for a lot longer than a growth spurt.
My husband went back to work 3 weeks ago after being on daddy leave for 8 months (this started a few weeks before he went back). So while hubby is getting used to working again, I work full-time and am 15 weeks pregnant with our second child. We need our sleep!
Any ideas why he’s getting up or what I can do to help him sleep more soundly?
The sleep problems started before dad went back to work and it was always me who got up with him.
We also feed him right before bed and have even tried giving him bigger bottles (usually he only drinks 4 oz at a time) but he won’t eat it, he falls asleep first.
I was told that naps should only be at intervals of 90 minutes, because that completes a full cycle of REM sleep, so that when you wake up you will feel more alert and ready to go. Therefore it’s better to take a 90 minute nap than a 110 minute nap. Is this true?
