Awake at 3am | Motherhood & Sleep

They told you it was normal. We ask if it really is. If you've ever been awake at 3am wondering why your baby won't sleep or why everyone else seems to be coping better, you're in the right place. Hosted by infant sleep consultant Sophia Masur and mum of two Jess Zids, we share real stories and evidence-based conversations on baby sleep, sleep deprivation, postnatal depression, food intolerances and maternal mental health—so no mum feels alone.

Awake at 3am | Motherhood & Sleep is a kids podcast hosted by Jess Zids and Sophia Masur, with 33 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Jess Zids and Sophia Masur hosts Awake at 3am | Motherhood & Sleep, a kids show with 33 episodes published.

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  33 | I Told Him If I Had Postnatal Depression, It Was His Fault | Lory | Preeclampsia, Paternal Postnatal Depression, Adult ADHD & Couples Therapy

  Oct 6, 202636 min

  Lory had a Taylor Swift playlist for labour. A birth version, and a separate one for a C-section, just in case. What she didn't plan for was her blood pressure spiking to 190, an emergency caesarean, and 24 hours in and out of consciousness while her newborn son went to NICU without her. Lory is a mum of one, and she thought the hardest part would end there. It didn't. Months later, she was diagnosed with postnatal depression, after telling herself for weeks that she was "so good at masking" how she felt that even she didn't notice how bad it had gotten. Then, just as she started to recover, she learned her husband John had been diagnosed too, after a moment that broke her heart: their baby smiled at him, and he couldn't smile back. In this episode, Lory shares what preeclampsia actually looked like from the inside, how a couple can end up fighting over who's "doing it harder" when they're both drowning, and how couples therapy became the thing that held their family together when neither of them could. This episode explores: Preeclampsia and emergency caesarean birth Postnatal depression and antidepressant medication Paternal postnatal depression Adult ADHD diagnosis Masking mental health struggles, even from yourself Resentment and disconnect in a relationship after baby Couples therapy and relationship repair Returning to work after maternity leave IVF and fertility treatment If you've ever felt like you had to hold everything together while the person next to you was falling apart too, or you've masked how you're really doing so well that even you stopped noticing, this conversation is for you. Follow us at Awake at 3am and Sophia's Sleep Schoo l for more real stories of motherhood, sleep and survival.

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  32 | I Couldn't Say Out Loud That I Was Struggling | Sabrina | Stage 4 Endometriosis, Fertility Journey & Newborn Sleep

  Sep 29, 202648 min

  Some nights, Sabrina was waking every thirty minutes to an hour. She'd assumed she'd hit the jackpot, a newborn sleeping eight hours a night, barely one wake. Then four months hit, and it never really stopped. By seven months, some nights she was waking six to ten times. She told herself it was teething. It wasn't. Before any of that, Sabrina spent ten years chasing a diagnosis for pain doctors kept dismissing. Stage four endometriosis, found only after a routine 45-minute surgery turned into eight hours on the table. In this episode, Sabrina shares what it actually took to fall pregnant after that diagnosis, the night she sent a photo of herself to two friends because she couldn't say out loud that she was struggling, and the unusual setup she and her partner used to finally get her daughter sleeping through, one that involved a spare apartment two floors down. This episode explores: Stage 4 endometriosis and delayed diagnosis Trying to conceive after endometriosis surgery Newborn and infant sleep regressions Frequent night waking and feeding to sleep Postpartum mental load and isolation Recognising when you need to ask for help Sleep training when breastfeeding is the only thing that works Partner-led settling and parenting through sleep training If you've ever been too exhausted to say the words "I'm not okay," or you're stuck wondering whether your baby's sleep is ever going to change, this conversation is for you. Follow Sabrina here and follow us at Awake at 3am and Sophia's Sleep School for more real stories of motherhood, sleep and survival.

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  31 | I Thought We'd Made a Huge Mistake | Jess | Night Terrors, Ditching The Dummy & Surgery Recovery

  Sep 22, 202628 min

  For three months, Jess convinced herself the night terrors would just pass. Every night, roughly two hours after bedtime, her daughter Floss would start screaming, kicking, thrashing, eyes wide open, completely unreachable. Sometimes it happened every thirty minutes until 1am. In the morning, she had no memory of any of it. Jess's own GP had never heard of a link between night terrors and tonsils. In this episode, Jess shares what actually led her to push past "wait and see," the nasal spray that worked for a month and then stopped, the moment an ENT said her tonsils were graded a three out of four, and the brutal, unexpected recovery that had her convinced, days after the surgery, that they'd made a huge mistake. Because it doesn't get better in three days. For Jess and Floss, it took closer to a month, and then everything changed. This episode explores: Night terrors in toddlers Toddler sleep and frequent night waking Teeth grinding and night sweats in children Restless, disrupted sleep and its causes ENT referrals and long wait times Surgery recovery in young children When to push past "it's probably nothing" Mood, appetite and behaviour changes tied to poor sleep If your child has unexplained night terrors, grinds their teeth, sweats through the night, or wakes up looking like they've been through a storm, this conversation might be the one that changes what you ask your GP next. Follow @awakeat3am.podcast and @sophiassleepschool for more from todays episode and for daily sleep tips!

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  30 | I Carried My Daughter Out of the Hospital in My Arms | Hannah | Infant Loss at 22 Weeks, Extremely Premature Birth & NICU

  Sep 8, 202650 min

  This episode discusses infant loss, extremely premature birth, and a newborn's life-threatening illness. Please take care while listening. Hannah carried her daughter out of the hospital in her arms. Olive had died two days earlier, at 22 weeks, after Hannah's waters broke and her medical team told her there was nothing more they could do. Hannah is a midwife and mother of three girls. After a normal first pregnancy, her second ended when her cervix failed at 22 weeks, too early for her daughter Olive to survive. Hannah and her husband made the devastating decision to let her go peacefully rather than pursue interventions with almost no chance of a good outcome, and spent 24 hours with her before saying goodbye. Two years later, her third daughter Nora was born at 28 weeks after months of preterm labour and a second cervical stitch. Nora survived, but contracted meningitis three separate times in her first months of life, spending weeks in NICU and undergoing multiple surgeries before finally coming home well. In this episode, Hannah shares what it actually looked like to carry a pregnancy knowing her baby wouldn't survive, why she started making ceramic urns by hand for other bereaved families, and how she found her way back to feeling like herself after loss most people can't imagine surviving. This episode explores: Infant loss and pregnancy loss at 22 weeks Cervical insufficiency and cervical stitch Extremely premature birth and NICU Meningitis in newborns and premature babies Retained placenta and postpartum complications Grief, memory making and honouring a baby who died Explaining loss to an older sibling Rebuilding a family after infant loss If you've experienced the loss of a baby, are navigating a high risk or extremely premature pregnancy, or simply want to understand what this kind of grief actually looks like, this conversation will stay with you. Support is available. Red Nose Grief and Loss Support: 1300 308 307 SANDS Australia: 1300 072 637 Star Legacy Foundation Sands UK: 0808 164 3332 Follow Hannah and Olive & Kin , and follow us at Awake at 3am and Sophia's Sleep School for more real stories of motherhood, sleep and survival.

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  28 | I Ran Out of Things to Blame Myself For | Jamie | Toddler Sleep, Adenoids, Undiagnosed Postpartum Depression & Sleep Training

  Aug 18, 202632 min

  Jamie tried everything to get her daughter to sleep. Rocking. Feeding to sleep. Singing. An item of her own clothing in the cot. Nothing worked for longer than a month. Jamie is a mum of two, soon to be three, and has spent the last three years trying to understand why the sleep training that worked for her son in two nights did nothing for her daughter. She tried a gentle, non cry it out method from a bestselling sleep book that had worked perfectly the first time. She tried mother's group advice, desperate late night Facebook posts, physios and chiropractors. Some nights her daughter woke more than a dozen times, and the one thing left on the list wasn't a method at all. It was her daughter's tonsils. In this episode, Jamie shares what it actually took to get her daughter's toddler sleep under control, from an ENT assessment that revealed enlarged tonsils and adenoids, to the moment she called the surgeon in tears, convinced she was making the wrong call. We also talk about the undiagnosed postpartum depression she didn't recognise in herself the first time around, the one her husband had to name for her, and how a completely different second baby forced her to throw out everything that worked the first time. This episode explores: Toddler sleep and frequent night waking Enlarged tonsils and adenoids affecting sleep Signs your child may need an ENT assessment Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy in toddlers Sleep training that works for one child and not another Undiagnosed postpartum depression and postnatal depression Postpartum anxiety and identity loss in motherhood Mouth breathing, snoring and poor sleep quality in toddlers Managing a newborn, a toddler and working full time Second and third pregnancy after postpartum depression Setting boundaries as a working parent If you've ever wondered whether your toddler's tonsils could be the reason nothing else has worked, or you've suspected you had postpartum depression and no one confirmed it, this conversation is for you. Follow @awakeat3am.podcast and @sophiassleepschool to learn more about infant sleep!

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