Sleepless nights

So, let's talk about how pregnancy has been treating me.

It's hard. I'm exhausted all the time...10 hours of sleep a night and going to bed between 7:30 and 9 are commonplace...my lower back hurts from carrying the extra weight in my chest...I can only eat a few bites of something before I start to feel nauseous, then I am starving while nauseous a half hour later. I recently got my first bad headache, borderlining a migraine, and was pretty sure my head had expanded three times its original size and would explode at Inu's next bark. I feel like I have to poo all the time, but don't go to the bathroom, and I do have to pee constantly.

The last sentiment leads me to sleeping. Granted I have only gained 5 pounds in 13 weeks. That is one pound more than I should have gained, but not too bad really. I figure I am carrying most of it up top and a bit in my belly. Though it is enough that I can't wear pants that sit right below my belly button anymore.

All that said, my body isn't too different, which means it shouldn't be hard to sleep.

But it is.

I struggle to get comfortable without taking over the entire queen bed. I steal the covers all the time and then get tangled. And I have to get up to pee every hour.

Micah has recently brought it to my attention that, before I get up to use the restroom in the middle of the night, I announce that I have to go. Which means, I wake Micah up to tell him what is happening. I always fall back on the "You're narcoleptic which means you can fall right back asleep" issue, but I guess that is not acceptable when I am interrupting a REM cycle.

This has all culminated recently when I woke Micah during the last full moon to ask if someone had put a street light in the alley. It was THAT bright. It really looked like someone was shining the brightest flashlight ever in through our west facing window.

Thursday night I woke Micah again to have him look at the moon. On Saturday he let me know that the brightest moon of the year was going to happen that night. We then got into a discussion as to whether it was proper for me to be waking him to let him know completely benign thoughts throughout the night.

During which I told him that I thought I was making the right decision. So he started mocking me and said, "I'd do it all over again."

And I was so excited because I had done it all over again!

Needless to say we were both bummed when the clouds covered the brightest moon of the year last night.

peace.