I love being pregnant. Every little inconvenient thing is so worth having a baby. So I hope no one ever gets confused about whether I like this or not, or am thankful that God allowed us to be pregnant. But let's be honest, the interesting things to write about are the inconveniences!
Like sleep, for instance. I need it more than usual, however, everything seems to make it more difficult and less enjoyable. I am tired during the day and need to take a nap, but when I do, I have trouble falling asleep at night. It is nearly impossible to get comfortable. I wake up a million times at night to use the bathroom, B is practicing gymnastics(I do love being woken up by this!), its an inferno in our room, etc. I either have horrible heartburn, or I am wide awake despite the fact that I was falling asleep all day. Several times I have laid there talking to Stephen, only to discover he's fast asleep. This pregnancy hasn't negatively affected his sleep. He's another thing that complicates my sleep. I get SO hot these days. Stephen, being the sweet husband that he is, is a bit of a cuddler at night. He blames me for this. Pregnancy has made me, well, NOT a cuddler. He gets really cold at night, traps himself in with covers, and somehow manages to get his body temperature to about 200 degrees. Then he gravitates over to my side of the bed, and I wake up drenched in sweat. I have felt him before and been sure he was dying because he felt so hot. Luckily our house has been about 60 degrees at night so I can throw the covers off and get a little relief. I usually have to tell Stephen to move to his side of the bed about 2 or 3 times a night. It's not that I don't love him, he just tends to smother me at night.
Another thing that is pretty stressful about sleep is that I sleep on my back. Everyone knows you aren't suppose to sleep on your back when you are pregnant. I think for a lot of people it just eventually gets uncomfortable and they stop on their own. It seems for most people this happens around 4 or 5 months. Well here I am, over 7 months pregnant, and I wake up on my back most of the night.
I seem to have a lot on my mind at night that I can't just let go. I seriously lost sleep in the midst of my cloth diaper research because I couldn't help but lay there in bed thinking about it. This past week a good friend of ours came to stay with us. We only have one bathroom upstairs and both our bedroom and the guest room are upstairs so we get to share a bathroom with our guests. No big deal. I wake up at every tiny noise though. Also really not that big of a deal since I probably need to pee anyway. Well, our friend used the bathroom but didn't want to flush the toilet because he didn't want to wake us up. Silly, since I woke up as soon as I heard him get out of bed. So I can't go back to sleep because I am afraid I'll gag when I go in there because it will smell like pee. What a strange thing to lay there and think about! I think I laid there for an hour worrying about it- not to mention, I really did have to pee, but I was afraid to because of the smell. So I laid there and wouldn't get up until Stephen got up to use the bathroom. Kinda mean to make him suffer through the smell, but he's a man and he's not pregnant. I told him the next morning what happened and he told me I should have woken him up and told him to flush the toilet for me. So I did the next night when our friend did the same thing. It's kinda funny really, to think that I laid there and lost sleep, all because I was afraid of smelling pee.
I am getting use to not sleeping well or much, and am actually looking forward to having something to do during the times I am not sleeping when we have this baby. Sometimes I lose sleep because I am thinking about that.
31 weeks!
