For those of you who have yet to push an eight pound baby out of your lady bits (or had your stomach sliced open via a C-section), you may not know that sleep deprivation starts shortly after you peer down at those two gloriously bright pink lines on your pregnancy test and NOT after that little bundle of joy actually enters the world and is safely in your arms. When I found out that I was pregnant with my son, I turned to my husband and said, "Babe, we have eight more months left to enjoy peaceful, uninterrupted sleep." So, imagine my surprise when I began waking up to pee two or three times per night within days of my positive pregnancy test. I wanted to scream, "This isn't fair!! Not yet!! The baby isn't even here yet!!" After a skim through What to Expect When You Are Expecting, I discovered that frequent urination in the beginning is due to a growing uterus, not to mention baby.
Well, my lack of sleep from this pregnancy is catching up with me already. Not only am I exhausted as is common during the first trimester, but I'm so stinking tired because I can't stop peeing in the middle of the night! I've tried not drinking water hours before I am planning on going to sleep and that doesn't even work. Alas, I am resigned to the fact that even though my little monster has been sleeping through the night for the last seven months, my sleepless nights have begun again and if this baby is like Trent, those nights will probably continue for the next 18 months or so.
So, for all of you woman out there who are on the cusp of getting pregnant, let me give you this little piece of advice: even though a baby is worth everything your body goes through for nine months, ENJOY those last few uninterrupted eight hours of sleep! Enjoy those dreams, even the nightmares, because it means that you are actually sleeping long enough to dream :) Thus, sleep tight my friends and think of me when you wake up from that restful night of slumber!
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