26 weeks pregnant insomnia 😔

It’s been like this the last few weeks. I’ll try to go to sleep at 8, but I don’t actually fall asleep till 10. Then I’ll wake up every hour to use the bathroom or just randomly. Then my entire body is just up at 4am and my brain is still exhausted. So I try to go back to sleep until 6, but then I have to be up for work. Even during these short spans of me being able to sleep, I have ridiculous dreams and so I wake up not feeling well rested at all.

I’m not on my phone or watching tv in bed, I pee right before I go to bed and try to not drink or eat anything an hour before bed. But this is infuriating. I’m in a fog all day. And the only thing that has helped me sleep is when I took benedryl last week for an allergic reaction I thought I was having and I passed out. But I know I cannot take it every day. I’m just so exhausted.

Oh and please don’t make some snarky comment about how I’ll be getting less sleep when the baby is here. Like, no shit. But I’ll be getting up for good reason. Right now while I’m still working full time and am physically and mentally exhausted I would just like a few more months of being able to sleep more than 3 hours a night.