Sleep, My Preciousssssss

The insomnia has finally caught up with me. 

The first couple of weeks, it was just funny, a good symptoms of pregnancy story--waking up every night at 3:00 am.  Then this week, the repercussions started.  Monday morning, I was throbbing with fatigue at work.  Yesterday, I worked at home after the doctor's visit.  And at about 2:00, the throbbing started again.  Because I was at home, I had the option of actually taking a nap to help sort this bone weary fatigue out.  So I took it.

I thought that I should set an alarm clock so that I could wake up in a reasonable amount of time.  But I figured I would sleep for a normal amount of nap time and wake up.  Fortunately, Dave called and woke me up.  Two and a half hours into my nap.  I would have slept until he came home if he hadn't called.  I also realized when Dave woke me up that I was supposed to be at a meeting at UNCC in 20 minutes and that dressed in sweats and still reeling from my nap there was no way I was going to make it.  (My friend/meetee was quite forgiving)

Usually, when I have that long of a nap, I have a hard time falling asleep that night.  To be honest, I did not fall asleep immediately when I hit the bed.  It took at least a whole minute instead of what has become the usual 20 seconds.  And of course, I woke up at 3:00 again.  But I didn't let myself start thinking and fell back to a fitful sleep for the rest of the night/early morning. 

The doctor's comments yesterday that this is one of those motherhood things has not been reassuring.  I am pooped.  And I'd really rather have the 2 week crash course in learning to wake up for the 3:00 am feeding than this 5 month prep.  I can't take this for the rest of my life!!

There is one very cute bun aspect of this story:  when I sleep, the bun moves over to the right side of my belly.  So when I wake up, I have a big bump to the right of my belly button.  He's gotten so big that my uterus is higher than my belly button now so I have one pregnant side of my abdomen with a hard bumop and one just plain fat mushy side.  IT's really weird and cute at the same time.  Even after yesterday's nap, I woke up with the baby bump on the right.  It's the only thing I know about him as a human being right now:  he likes to snuggle to the right when he sleeps. 

Last night, I also noticed that I'm having a harder time breathing when I'm lying flat on my back.  I'm going to have to start sleeping on my sides.  I've heard the side sleeping position is optional, but I think I may have to switch to it for the rest of the pregnancy.

Off to work.  Wednesdays are the rough days.

7:34:44 AM