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I've always done fairly well at falling asleep. With the birth of our child 5 years ago, I changed my sleeping habits from around 12-7am to match his waking time (between 5-6am) which was roughly going to bed between 9-9:30pm which I've maintained since. Despite him sleeping more reliably toward 6:00am these days, years of getting up at 5am for him "trained" the loving cats to pester me so I still get up at that time to feed them them. During the week I have to start doing morning work/daycare stuff at 6am, so I just stay up after feeding the cats. This eventually catches up with me and after putting our child down at 8:30, I'd say there's a 50% chance I'll be tired enough to just go to our bedroom and turn in for the night. On the weekends getting another hour or so before child wakes up is becoming more reliable. Also on weekends I LOVE to nap. I feel refreshed (like I'm actually doing something important to recharge myself on my day off) and it's not even a big time commitment. Its rare for my body to allow me to sleep more than an hour, so if I can get in a nap on each day off, I feel fantastic. The biggest problems that affect me are some kind of stress about work or a project that of course, affect me after waking up for a 3am pee. One thing that has seemed to help in the past year, despite increased work stress, is drinking water (around 8 oz cup we keep in the bathroom) before I go to bed and after I pee. In 47 years, I've never done this before, but I feel like something about being better hydrated must play a role in staving off that "3am and your brain is UP" poo poo. I swear I can feel my body absorbing it and feeling a relief I never quite knew it needed. Finally, if I'm tired, I'm loving tired and no amount of TV, light, or even caffeine from coffee will keep me awake. If I allow myself to get invested/interested in TV/browsing/something I can stay up beyond my normal bedtime, but I seem to have developed a remarkable way of controlling that which I take for granted that many others don't have.
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Nov 22, 2020 19:22
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LimaBiker posted:In short: if i fall asleep, i sleep great. But falling asleep is not something that happens easily to me unless it's well past midnight. I also have been drinking more water during the night (before bed, pee breaks) and I feel like that has also improved my sleep.
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Dec 15, 2020 13:26
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