Man, oh, man. These weeks. I'm trying to keep a chin up, I am, but N's school is the school of germs and destruction. I've been sicker in December than ever and it is hard. I love Christmas and this is just the worst. I thought I'd write you all with a quick blog post, however, of how I fall asleep nowadays. Read it and weep.
1. Decide it is finally time to sleep. This can occur any time between eleven PM and four AM. I know some of you are horrified, but my insomnia has hit me especially hard this pregnancy.
2. Brush my teeth. Check on N to see how his breathing is. His asthma is kicking up in this dry weather. Forget I've brushed my teeth and brush them again. Use the bathroom.
3. Get to bed where I need to rearrange my nest of pillows. This takes about five minutes.
4. Lay down. Cough. Nearly throw up. This happens every single night. I try not to clear my throat by coughing but then I am miserable.
5. Spend another ten minutes in the bathroom trying to keep the food I did not eat down.
6. Get back into bed and think about the nest of pillows and the heartburn.
7. Turn from side to side trying to find a position where my lower spine doesn't feel like it's falling apart.
8. Think about the c-section.
9. Vow to try a natural birth.
10. Laugh at myself and then weep.
11. Have to get up and use the bathroom again!
12. Re-arrange pillows and finally find sleeping spot that is vaguely comfortable.
13. Drowse. P who is soundly sleeping turns over. This is like a small earthquake in our bed. Can't believe I never noticed pre-pregnancy that he basically throws himself around when he turns over. It wakes me up. Bathroom time again.
14. Come back. Settle down. Drowse.
15. Spend next hour or two trying to sleep/drowse. Finally, six or seven in the morning, fall dead asleep.
16. Seven thirty AM, N walks into the bedroom and screams, "WAKE UP!"
For serious, folks. If they offer me pain or sleeping drugs after that c-section, I'm going to take them like there is no tomorrow. And I'm going to sleep. I just want them to bring me a baby to feed and change for a few days while I sleep and sleep and eat ice.
3 comments:
Ha! I would complain to Bryan about his snoring SO much at that stage. He did not seem to understand why, if you are already waking up 5 times a night to use the bathroom, you do not need ANY other impediments to you returning straight to sleep. Good luck. Only 8-10 weeks left to go!
Once again, you have left me giggling! Love your posts :)
Oh no! I am so sorry to hear you are so sick! I insist that day care is sick care, preshool is a germ dome and grade school is one big petri dish! Still, we both know it is hard enough being pregnant and it sucks to be sick, so pregnant+sick= unnecessary roughness
I hope you feel better soon!!
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