I'm exhausted ALL the time but I can't sleep!

[C.Arden]

I'm about 8 weeks along now and I'm really feeling the 1st trimester exhaustion.  To add to that, my 16 month old is going through a phase and not sleeping well at all.  I'm up 6 and 7 and 8 times a night with her lately.  For the past week or so though, I can't sleep at all.  I try to sleep during dds 2 hour afternoon nap and I can't fall asleep.  I lay awake for hours in bed exhausted, but unable to fall asleep.  This post probably doesn't make a lot of sense, but hopefully you get the idea.  I need help!  What can I do to get to sleep?

[Peony]

Going through the same thing. I take Unisom, not every night but a few times a week. It allows me to fall back asleep after the 5th time DS has woken me up that night. 

[tzs]

get yourself to a hotel for a night ASAP! seriously, just ONE night...it doesn't have to be the 4 seasons, some $39/night la quinta will do.

i thought i was going to lose it first trimester from the exhaustion and just general dealing with dd (and she only wakes once a night) but i was getting so impatient with her and with DH and life in general. i also am a horrible napper...by the time i settle in, dd is awake and it's over with me feeling even more tired than before. and at night...even if dh dealt with dd, i wake up at every peep. 

so dh booked me a room and i spent a blissful night at the pool and watching cable and sleeping late for the first time since dd's birth. i didn't worry at all about dd and how dh would handle the nighttime parenting because it was only one night and they;d both survive.

it worked wonders and got me through.