[HPFGU-OTChatter] My crummy Sunday... (warning: long and whiny)

[Amanda Lewanski]

jenP_97 wrote:

> And!  I haven't had more than 2 hours of sleep a night for a week
> now.  I'm so utterly exhausted that I can't think straight, and I just
> hate the thought of having to go to bed at night.  I am more
> uncomfortable than I expected to be at night - I mean, I'm only 3
> months pregnant... though I'm a stomach sleeper, I can't feel the
> peanut yet... but I still can't get comfortable!!!!!  ARGH!

I don't think it has anything to do with comfortable. I've been on the
nest three times, and each time the first thing I noticed was my sleep
patterns changed. [I'm talking, first thing I noticed before I got
sickish or did the home test.] I suddenly could not sleep for more than
2 or 3 hours at a stretch, and when I woke I wasn't groggy, I was
ready-to-give-a-speech alert; then I'd look disgustedly at the clock and
my gently snoring husband (whose fault this all was, of course) and turn
over, and then I'd turn back to check the time and it would be 2 to 3
hours later, and I'd not feel rested or anything, just
ready-to-give-a-speech alert and tired.

It's my personal theory that your body shifts you into nursing mode
early, to get you ready. You know, so you don't doze off feeding the
baby at night and drop him/her/it. Which could have happened to me
because I wasn't working when I had my kids, and my husband was, and I
felt guilty about waking him at night to help me, so I'd get up and go
get the baby and change her/him/him, do the nursing (watching way too
many infomercials, by the way--I almost ordered something once, they
must know people have lowered resistance at 3 a.m.), put the baby back
to bed, etc., twice a night, while my husband gently snored. I'd get so
mad at myself for being such a weenie! Some friends of ours, the man got
up and got the baby and brought it to his wife and waited while she fed
it and talked, and then put it back to bed. Humph.

I had a hard time sleeping, too, because I am a stomach sleeper, and
that just don't work in later stages of pregnancy. You roll around like
a Weeble.

So, dear, sympathies, and I am being entirely truthful when I say (a) it
will get worse, so enjoy it now, and (b) this is NOT what you remember,
the bad stuff fades from your mind, you tell stories about it and laugh
but honest, you can't remember how horrible the bad times were.

--Amanda, always ready to let pregzillas vent, been there, done that,
all done (I hope)


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