One of the great ironies of pregnancy is that, no matter how much experienced parents warn you to “sleep now, before the baby comes” with a glint of desperate jealousy in their eyes, you often simply can’t. Whether it’s back ache, toilet visits, or scenarios of dread keeping you up, those magic nine months of pregnancy bring with it a range of physical and psychological barriers to sleep and voilà – there’s your insomnia problem. Here’s what you can do to try to get some shut eye.
SLEEP STEALER
WORRY, WORRY, WORRY
You may wake up at night sketching horror scenarios in your mind, for instance about a labour and birth that most likely won’t go wrong, or about congenital conditions your baby most likely won’t be born with. Some anxiety, of
