Lilysunshine

The last few nights have been horrible. A mix of weird-disturbing dreams, pains in my hips and lower back, heartburn and snoring (my snoring: winter + baby means that I snore just like my father…) have left me shattered in the days. If you add to that the guilt of disturbing the sleep of my husband (the snoring especially…) and I haven’t felt on top of the world recently.

Most of my bad sleep is due to me being now heavily pregnant (7 weeks left!). And there is almost nothing I can do about it.
Yes, I can use pillows to help with the hips and lower back pains, but as soon as I’m asleep, I’ve got no control over my movements and the pillows are not staying in place. So I wake up every couple of hours (at most) to re-place everything.
What about the heartburns? Gaviscon helps a little bit as well as the 3 pillows under my head at night. But I don’t like medicating myself too much for something that feels as trivial as heartburns. And sleeping on 3 pillows is NOT comfortable.
There is absolutely nothing I can do about the bad dreams. It’s just the hormones playing up and until this wee lad pops out and my hormones levels go back to ‘normal’ (as in pre pregnancy normal), the weird/disturbing dreams will stay. I just wish I wouldn’t wake up at 4am, panting and sweating because I’ve been scared to death by my mother (or any other relatives of mine).
The snoring is more a problem for my husband actually. It does wake him up. So as he is the one who’s going to work in the day, when it’s really bad and he is getting really annoyed because he can’t sleep. I try and stay awake until he goes to sleep. I guessed that if he is deep asleep, he won’t hear me snoring. I just wish he would go to bed earlier, though, so that I don’t have to sleep for 2 hours, stay awake for another 2 and try to catch up on sleep when I feel I can let go. Maybe I should try those nose strips we see the ads on the telly?

All this bad or lack of sleep as left me very tired and lacking of energy during the day. Yesterday, I managed to sleep 1 hour in the afternoon, but it makes me feel guilty because I really should be doing something constructive, right? But even if I stay awake in the day, I am so bloody tired that I am not doing anything much anyway! I haven’t been knitting for the last few days because I am just too exhausted to get comfort from it. All I do is watch telly I am not remotely interested in and read stuff on forums and blogs. But not in a pro-active way…

Gaaaaah… Me wants to sleeeeeeeeep.

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