My crummy Sunday... (warning: long and whiny)

[plinsenmayer]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> 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 also don't think it has to do with comfort; like Amanda said, it's
getting you ready for nursing.  As you probably remember from your 1st
pg, it gets *alot* worse toward the end of pg!  *Alot* worse!!  I'm a
back sleeper, which was out of the question by about mth 4 (plus, the
books *tell* you to sleep on your left side ...better blood flow to
the baby supposedly).  I can remember waking up in the middle of the
night, 2-3 times per night, in a dead panic, because I'd moved from my
left side over on my back & was utterly convinced that I'd cut off her
oxygen supply!  Pg does crazy things to your rationality btw.  "Oh my
*God*!  I'm on my *back* ....aaaaaaaaaaaaggh"


> 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.

There are men who get up in the middle of the night to *help* with the
baby???!  You mean they can get up to do something other than ask in a
grim voice whether the baby will be sleeping (i.e. shutting up)
anytime soon???

Penny
(whose baby *screamed* non-stop, inconsolably from 9:00 p.m to 7:30
a.m. every night for 5 solid weeks ... my mother, who came to stay
with me for much of that time is a *saint,* an absolute saint)