Sleep or lack there of
I would really love to sleep through the night again. I just don’t think that’s going to happen any time soon. At my last sonogram the sonographer said, “Well your baby is sitting a little low…” proving that the tadpole is pretty much dancing on my bladder. I can deal with going to the bathroom every hour or so when I’m already awake, but to have to get up from even a not so sound sleep every hour has made me a very sleepy woman, not to mention a little pissy. I’ve tried all the tricks that are in that pregnancy book my doctor gave me, what the hell is double urination anyway? Once I’ve gone, I’ve gone, there’s nothing left in there until about 50 minutes later. I love the tadpole but is all that second trimester movement really necessary? Damn I gotta pee! Not to mention that there is no comfortable position to sleep in. When my fiancée and I moved in together we put my queen size bed in the guest room and started using his king size bed. The only problem with that is that his bed is much firmer than the one I’ve been sleeping in for the last 10 years. Sleeping on your side is fine when you have a soft, squishy mattress to absorb your shoulder but when your on a firm mattress your neck absorbs your shoulder and that’s no fun. Sleeping on my tummy is out of the question because the tadpole doesn’t like that. This leaves sleeping on my back. Now this presents two problems. The first of which is that my butt has gotten so big that my back arches if I sleep flat on my back and if I put a pillow or two under my knees it makes it extremely difficult to get out of bed to pee. I tried it once and got tangled in the pillows, I fell flat on my face and almost pee’d myself. The second problem with sleeping on my back is the snoring, and it’s not like I all that worried about disturbing my fiancée, well that’s not true, I am worried about that but I’m more concerned about the fact that I snore so loud I wake myself up. Is there some trick to this sleeping while pregnant thing that no one is telling me? Help!


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You're just so cute...and if the mean version of (Sybil) Lisa is reading this right now, I mean that in the nicest possible way. I love the way you tell these stories...
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