Goodbye Sleep!

This last week has brought some....fun...changes to my life.  I have discovered that I am probably never going to get a good night's sleep for a very long time.  Right now, I usually wake up every 1 or 2 hours at night because I get so uncomfortable and sore.  Whichever side I lay on, after about an hour or 2, I feel like I'm getting bruises, especially on my hips.  So I wake up a lot at night because I have to reposition myself and attempt to get comfortable again.  I told my doctor about it and he said he'd never heard of that before, that most pregnant women don't have that much trouble sleeping till later and they usually just wake up because of back pain or the baby moving.  But I talked to my visiting teacher last night (who is also pregnant) and she said she was having the same thing.  She said she ordered a body pillow and told me she'd let me know if it helps at all!  I was thinking about lining my whole side of the bed with an extra layer of pillows, but one body pillow might be less fussy.

Another reason I don't sleep well at night is because of another new development.  I started having these terrible nightmares every night for the past week.  On wednesday, after a particularly bad night, I ended up telling David about them and was crying the whole morning (which actually isn't that unusual because I cry a lot anyways and it is always made worse when I don't get a lot of sleep).  He was very nice about it and bought me a treat and helped talk me into a better mood.  But I wake up a lot because of those nightmares.  I told my visiting teacher about this too, and she said she had heard of it a lot.  They aren't nightmares about having babies, they are all just really violent and dark.  I think they're getting better, though.  Either that or I have just been so exhausted that my body won't allow me to wake up.  This is one thing that I really hope goes away fast.

So between those 2 things and the fact that I have to get up and go to the bathroom and am growing a person, I am very tired.  But I still make myself go to work every day and play in the symphony because I figure that when the baby comes, I'm still going to be tired and I don't want to stop enjoying what I love just because I'm tired!  It's just good practice for when the baby does get here, or at least that's what I keep telling myself.

On a happier note, my stomache has popped this last week.  Before it just kind of looked like I had eaten to much or that I had let myself go after getting married, but now it is a for real baby bump!  I'm glad about that because I was starting to feel self-conscious because I just looked pudgy.  Although, right now I'm at the in-between stage where I'm almost too big for regular jeans but not big enough for maternity pants.  It's fine most of the time, except when I'm sitting in rehearsal for symphony and can't recline back or anything for 2.5 hours.  My mom said I should start wearing dresses, but it's still snowy and cold!  So I'll keep that for my backup plan in case I get desperate. 

Oh, and we find out the gender on March 25th (Mom, I know I told you the 28th but I was wrong), so that's something to look forward to!  You could probably all make your guesses now!  I told David if it's a girl he has to buy me shoes and if it's a boy then I have to get him sushi.  I don't care either way, but David wants a boy and I just want to disagree with him to be annoying.  So my next post (because I don't post very often) will probably be the gender!  Yay for us!