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How do you ladies manage the lack of sleep, and just overwhelming fatigue??? 
I cannot nap, because I'm just not a naper, and I just can't sleep during daylight hours. So the "sleep while the baby sleeps" just doesn't work for me. 
Is there like a pill? Or some tea? Or just idk- some type of energizer to drink? I am so sleepy sometimes , it physically hurts to keep my eyes open.

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I think because I was up about 3-4 times per night for toilet trips while pregnant. Getting up every 3hours in the night for feeds isn't that different. I've never had problems sleeping. As soon as my head hits the pillow I'm out of it in a proper dreaming sleep. Then as soon as baby cries.....autopilot kicks in-I'm wide awake and sitting up.

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Can you sleep in?  I'm not a napper either, but I learned how to extend my 'nights' until noon.  So I sleep (with several feedings) from ~10pm-noon.  Good luck!

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What about trying to lay down with bubs? You don't have to force yourself to sleep, just rest your eyes and body

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I think my body has just adjusted over time to function on little sleep! The first 2-3 weeks were killer, I thought I was going to die of exhaustion or be put in the looney bin. It gets better though, my LO can go 5 hours between feedings at night and my husband watches her so I can nap on the weekends. Other than that, a nice big cup of coffee every morning and some good shows on your DVR for night feedings ! I

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I just fight through it when I have little ones. I dont nap and I go to bed at least an hour or more after thwy did

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I got my placenta encapsulated and find that it helps give me energy throughout the day when I can't nap. I do try to get some rest/ sleep when baby is sleeping too. And since we have to formula feed I'm lucky that my husband helps with feedings and changings. Even if you can't sleep try to rest ... It helps.

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I wait till my husband gets home from work and I make sure the baby is fed just before. That's around 5pm then I go to bed and he watches he baby. He gives him a bottle (pumped breast milk) if the baby gets hungry and I wake up around midnight to take over night duty. If the baby isn't fussy he will take one more feeding around 2-3am then sleep till 7-8am. And if he is fussy and is having a bad night then at least I got 6-7 hrs sleep before hubby went to bed. :)

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I put my husband to work. I'm not a napper but I go to bed early. Once I eat dinner I start to feel drained. I change and feed the baby. Then I go to bed, ideally by 9pm. My husband brings the baby to me around 11pm. Our son usually sleeps well by himself until 1am. Our baby then decides at this point that he can only sleep if he's touching us. So I sit up with him (making sure he is well supported just in case I fall asleep). I'm usually exhausted by 6am so I wake my husband up and pass the baby over. My husband passes the baby back at 8am when he goes to work. Sometimes our son will sleep 8-10am on his own so I try to sleep then too. Both then I'm usually up for the day.

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I'm the same, not a napper and can't sleep well when it's light out so the first few weeks I was pretty tired. I wasn't able to sleep well at night either because of getting used to her sounds and also my hormones made me have insomnia so I had to take a small dose of melatonin to get to sleep. I drank coffee and also a drink called spark, it's like happy mama juice, but you have to buy it through a company called Advocare. Hope you can find something that helps and baby starts sleeping more for you soon!

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My daughter is a lil over two months and I haven't slept since she's been born. I thought I was doing something wrong (she's my 1st baby) but doctor said she'll grow out of it.  I'm exhausted most days but some how have almost I guess I can say gotten use to not getting as much sleep lol 😴

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