- This bullshit! I've been lying awake in bed for 1.5 hours now for NO REASON.
- Being able to sleep without my hands going numb
- Sore PIP joints due to edema
- Being able to roll over in bed without completely waking up and having to readjust everything
- Sleeping for more than 60 minutes consecutively
- Putting on my shoes without having to sit down
- Not having to plan my day around how many times I have to change my socks
- Being able to stand the entire time I'm showering without feeling at some point that I might pass out
- Being able to walk for more than 1.5 miles without developing a sore back and having to sit
- Not feeling my knees ache every time I stand up
- Having my feet no longer be swollen -- I've had to loosen the laces on my sneakers twice in the past two weeks. Scratch that. LUCA had to loosen them because I couldn't reach my own feet.
- Being able to find a comfortable position while sitting on the couch
- Being able to eat sushi, cold cuts, stinky cheese, and have a glass of wine
- Being able to pick things up off the floor without doing a plie
- Hugging my husband without having to twist sideways to do it
I'm sure I'll think of some other things, but right now the insomnia is what is pissing me off the most. And yes, I know when we have our little bundle of joy I won't get as much sleep as I want. However at least then I will be up FOR A REASON.
14 Pearls of Wisdom:
I remember what I felt like bunavgz
oth times at this stage and I was right there with a list like the one you have given us. Good news: It gets better. Better news: Your newborn. Best news: your baby ... who looks at you like no one ever has before. You wilt dissolve in oxytocin and milk hormones. You will love it.
Hang in there :)
LHO -- :-)
I am really grouchy now, but I also know how lucky I've been with this pregnancy. It could have been so much worse!
But on the up side, you are being blessed with a baby! Being childless and having failed all my fertility treatment I get jealous sometimes and would trade all of those symptoms of a baby!
Yep, this is the pregnancy phase where you feel like it's never ever going to be over, and the more time passes, the more you want the baby out of you.
Newborn sleeping aside, my baby is now sleeping through the night pretty much every night (~12 hours), yet I still lie awake for no reason. I was always a "sleep in till noon" kind of girl, but now I wake up at 7AM on weekends and that's just all I can sleep. I think having a baby (in addition to getting older) somehow permanently messes up your sleep.
Sorry, I don't mean to be a downer. I am basically obsessed with sleep because my first pregnancy set off just a nonstop cycle of sleep problems for me. It probably isn't that way for everyone.
Fizzy -- THANKS A LOT!! :-P
Just kidding. I'd take waking up at 7AM every day over what I've been doing lately any time.
Starting when I was about 29, I stopped being able to sleep past 7 as well. So, we go to bed earlier. Like at 9. I used to be a sleep till noon (or one.... or two) kind of girl as well. Pre-pregnant, I also get up to pee at least once per night, sometimes more. I'm always shocked when I hear of people who sleep the entire night without getting up once. And I hate them a little too.
Technically Insane -- Sigh.
I'm sorry you're infertile. I take it you haven't read my blog for long? We had 2 miscarriages on the road to this baby, and thought for a while that we wouldn't be able to have kids at all. So, while I can't completely relate since we did end up staying pregnant fairly quickly in the grand scheme of things, I can tell you that the period of time before that was absolutely horrible. You really do have my sympathy (which I'm sure you don't want). I used to hide my pregnant and happy friends on fb because they annoyed me so much.
Fizzy and OMDG: I am also that girl who sleeps in till noon. This is like a preview of my future sleeping problems.
OMDG: I'm sorry you're not sleeping and you just want that baby out. From what you've described, I don't blame you!
OMDG: I got pregnant at 27, so it's entirely possible that my sleep problems were a result of getting older. I've read that as you get older, you tend to wake up more frequently and earlier. And being a resident chained to a pager at night definitely didn't help me either. Too many confounding factors.
My husband can still sleep in till noon, no problem.
Oh man, I really feel for you. I remember that feeling and it was no picnic. I still remember how difficult it was to get out of bed and you had to move the belly over first with a sort of jumping while laying down movement.
Like Fizzy, I had and still have sleep cycle issues. I'm slowly coming out of it but a lot of it came from getting divorced while the twins were still infants.
Oh, and I can remember having a love/hate relationship with the baby monitor. It was such a joy when I could finally turn that sleep-interrupter off.
As someone who takes pregnancy complaints with a lot of resentment, I really loosen that once a person is full term. You've endured over 37 weeks (full term!) of your body doing a lot of things that are very much out of your control. At this point, I think you're justified to complain about it. And this comes from someone who didn't see a third trimester, and lost a living child shortly after birth. Not quite the same as IF, but I know what loss and pain are.
So complain away. Even without the struggles you had to get pregnant (and all of our own individual struggles are the worst thing we've experienced.. there's ALWAYS something worse out there!) you deserve to feel 'done' at this point.
Hell, you even disclosed that it will all mean nothing once you have the baby.
(And on a sidenote, I've been personally surprised at how many sufferers of IF end up being those who complain quite early on in their very sought after pregnancy, realizing that it's not all joy and bliss when it's YOUR body.)
Keep us posted! (PS.. changing your socks? Huh?)
make that 2 glasses of wine...
and the stuff about not being able to sleep as you get older...yup.
Even on vacation this Christmas, I was waking up at 4:30 or 5 AM...
but I was on vacation so at least I could take naps.
HM -- You'll see when you get to 39 weeks this time around. It's difficult for me to reach my feet. I have to use one hand to bring my foot close enough to my body that I can reach it with the other hand. And then I have to let go since you need two hands to open the sock enough to get all your toes in, and my foot will then slide *just* out of reach. It's not debilitating or anything, but it is super annoying.
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