Not looking for medical advice, just for personal experiences:
I have had horrid, horrid insomnia for most of my life. The severity comes and goes, but it's always there. I took some form of sleeping pill almost every night before I got pregnant, and although I tried to stop once I found out I was pregnant, I haven't been able to completely stop.
My normal routine was to take 2-3 benedryls most nights. If that doesn't work (and usually it doesn't) then I'd take 1/2 an ambien. That almost always worked, although sometimes (very occasionally) I'd have to take the other half as well. On very rare occasions, when things were REALLY bad, I'd take 1/2- 1 mg. of xanax.
So, now I'm pregnant. The xanax is out, which is fine because that was only a worst-case scenario thing anyhow. But the ambien and benedryl are still on. I simply can't sleep well without any aids.
I'm sure that my years of use has made me somewhat dependent on the sleeping aids, but...still, here I am. This is my first pregnancy. Do any of you other mamas take now or have taken sleeping aids while pregnant? If so, what did you take and did it turn out ok? Do yall know what the safest remedies are?
(p.s. please don't tell me how you won't take anything when you're pregnant and that that's the only way to go. Please....I am aware of this already and unfortunately I'm wayyyy past that point.)
I have had horrid, horrid insomnia for most of my life. The severity comes and goes, but it's always there. I took some form of sleeping pill almost every night before I got pregnant, and although I tried to stop once I found out I was pregnant, I haven't been able to completely stop.
My normal routine was to take 2-3 benedryls most nights. If that doesn't work (and usually it doesn't) then I'd take 1/2 an ambien. That almost always worked, although sometimes (very occasionally) I'd have to take the other half as well. On very rare occasions, when things were REALLY bad, I'd take 1/2- 1 mg. of xanax.
So, now I'm pregnant. The xanax is out, which is fine because that was only a worst-case scenario thing anyhow. But the ambien and benedryl are still on. I simply can't sleep well without any aids.
I'm sure that my years of use has made me somewhat dependent on the sleeping aids, but...still, here I am. This is my first pregnancy. Do any of you other mamas take now or have taken sleeping aids while pregnant? If so, what did you take and did it turn out ok? Do yall know what the safest remedies are?(p.s. please don't tell me how you won't take anything when you're pregnant and that that's the only way to go. Please....I am aware of this already and unfortunately I'm wayyyy past that point.)
