Pregnancy Insomnia
July 1, 2010
We are 22 days till little Miss Audrey makes her debut and pregnancy insomnia has seemed to set in the last few days. I hardly sleep but I am one hundred percent exhausted. If I’m not waking to kicks in the stomach, braxton hicks, restless legs, the cats going nuts, or having to pee, I’m in that 2nd phase of sleep where I’m almost there but am still aware of what is occuring around me and can hear every little thing. Not to mention I have those achy pains that aren’t necessairly contributed to pregnancy that keep me awake as well.
I seemed to have done something to my big toe. I’m notorious in getting in-grown toe nails and I think I either didn’t get it or ended up cutting my nail bed getting it out. Needless to say either my nail bed is infected because it got cut open or the ingrown toe nail is growing and causing some pain. It doesn’t take much pressure to cause a jolt of pain. Moving my blanket at night with my foot even hurts. So that doesn’t help when I’m inches from deep sleep and bam, pain.
I’ve been full of complaints lately, little patience and feeling overwhelmed. I have a lot to accomplish before Audrey gets here but my dear hubby keeps telling me there is plenty of time, it will get done. I shouldn’t stress myself too much. Since she’ll come whether things are done or not and it won’t be the end of the world if all the laundry isn’t done when she arrives.
We’ll be spending our Independence day at my Parent’s house this weekend. I’m looking forward to it. BBQ, Sparklers, a few Fireworks, etc. should be a good day. We are not going to a big fireworks display this year. One, the date of the fireworks falls on days the husband works and he works nights, so that is not going to work. Two, due to PTSD, my husband has anxiety when it comes to large crowds. We thought we remedied this by planning to go the mall near my Mother’s to watch the fireworks from the car but given that their not doing fireworks till the 8th (a night the hubby works), we will not be able to go.
That’s okay. My toddlers love Grandma’s and they’ll get to swim, they’re water babies so they won’t care if they get to watch fireworks or not hah. Abigale counted to 3 today. It was amazing to hear her do it on her own. Often she will count numbers, not usually in any particular order unless I start with one, she says two, I say three, she says four and so forth.
I’ve got to get our pre-school stuff together and start preparing but I’m trying not to stress too much over this. Confession, I never went to pre-school. Neither did any of my siblings. I think I’m more than capable of teaching my children their ABC’s, 123′s, how to spell their name, the basics of writing, and the simple aspect of it. We don’t know if we plan on home-schooling or not, that is still the great debate but we have time before we need to make the ultimate decision.
