Menopause took my sleep. I’m here to give yours back.

3:12am, every night

I was a solid eight-hours woman my whole life. I could sleep on a train, in a chair, through thunderstorms. Then, at 49, it stopped. I'd fall asleep fine at eleven, and at 3:12 my eyes would bang open like someone had flipped a switch. Heart racing. Sheets soaked. Wide awake.

At first I thought it was stress. Then I thought I was losing my mind. I'd lie there doing the maths: if I fall asleep now I'll get three hours. Two and a half. Two. By the time the alarm went, I'd been awake for four hours and I had a full day of work to get through on the fumes.

I tried everything

Melatonin, low dose and high dose. Magnesium, the supermarket kind and then, when someone in a Facebook group told me, the glycinate kind. No wine. No coffee after noon. A cooling pillow that was warm in ten minutes. A fan on, a fan off. Benadryl, until I read what it does to your memory. Sleep stories. Every single sleep hygiene tip, by heart.

My GP told me to try sleep hygiene and cut out caffeine. I hadn't had a coffee after noon in ten years. My husband told me he'd “only” got eight hours. I came very close to murdering him.

“I didn't want a miracle. I wanted six hours straight and to wake up feeling like myself.”

Nobody had built for this

Here's what nobody tells you: menopause doesn't give you one sleep problem. It gives you five at once. The heat that wakes you drenched. The 3am ping. The brain that won't switch off. The light and the sound you never used to notice. And, one fine day, your own snoring.

Every product I bought solved one piece, badly, and was made for a 30-year-old with jet lag. I had a drawer full of half-solutions and I still wasn't sleeping. That drawer was the start of MenoNights.

So I built every piece

I started with the two things that finally worked for me: staying asleep, and getting back to sleep when I woke. Then I went to the women in the 4am club, the forums, the groups, my own friends, and asked what wakes them. The heat. His snoring. The light. Their racing minds. Their dry mouths. Their phones.

Every MenoNights piece answers one of those, and every piece was tested by women in perimenopause, menopause and after, on real nights, before it went on sale. And because no two menopause nights are the same, every order comes with a free personalized 28-Night Sleep Protocol that tells you which pieces your nights need, and what to do at 3am.