Trouble Sleeping While Pregnant

The neighbor’s are performing surgery, hubby is snoring and baby is having a solo dance party

Since being pregnant I have had a hard time sleeping off and on. Last nights events are ones I couldn’t keep to myself. I am still laughing about them just thinking about telling this story.

I am currently 22 weeks pregnant. My husband and I go to bed early, around 9:30PM. He was exhausted from a long day at work and not sleeping well the night before. He turns on a YouTube video for us (but more like just for me) to watch. He falls asleep within 1.35 seconds.

The video ends and he is woken up by an ad playing at the end of the video. He selects another video to play, notices I am still awake, hands me the remote, and tells me to just go ahead and turn the TV off when I am done. He then falls right back to sleep.

That second video ends, I turn off the TV and return the remote to the nightstand. I then lay back down in bed to the sound of a fake rainstorm coming from our sound machine and what I was hoping was going to be me slipping off to dreamland really soon!

Over an hour has gone by and my eyes are still wide open! I can’t get comfortable enough to fall asleep. Since I have to sleep on my side, my hips start hurting if I lay on one side for too long. My back is hurting, but the baby is AWAKE and practicing baby ninja moves in my belly (living his or her best life!) I don’t mind since I love feeling the movements. I just lay there, smile, enjoy the dance performance going on in my belly and listen to hubby snoring (if you have seen our YouTube video on his snoring you already know ALL about it).

Another half hour goes by and I am juuuuust getting to the point of feeling like I was finally going to visit dreamland but…

Pregnancy bladder had another idea for me…

I am just laughing at this point. I try and convince myself it’s in my head and really don’t have to pee. Lately I have been having the urge to pee and I sit down on the toilet to find out that just a few dribbles come out. Not worth getting up right now for all that. I lay there a few more minutes, with my eyes closed, before I realize I have no choice… I have to get up and go pee.

I never turn the light on in the bathroom when I go in the middle of the night. That just wakes me up more and who needs the light on to pee anyway? I walk into the bathroom to find the next door neighbor must be awake and performing surgery or something because the brightest light was streaming from the upstairs bedroom window directly into my bathroom.

I couldn’t make this up if I tried.

When I get back to bed I lay down, place my pregnancy wedge pillow between my knees (I am still trying to convince myself that this thing helps with the hip pain), take a deep breath and close my eyes. Baby is still awake and kicking, hubby is still snoring, sound machine is still going strong.

But this time I feel this overwhelming feeling of comfort, of peace, and simply gratefulness for my little family, as we are, right there with me. I then quickly slip away to dreamland.

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