anyone not sleeping well?

[maisiedotes]

I have been sleeping like crapola lately- I think the heat may be part of it. Something weird happened last night- I was asleep and DH came into the room and kissed me on the forehead. He said I sat bolt upright in bed, started yelling something about nuts, and threw the blankets off and stormed downstairs in a huff. I don't recall any of this except being downstairs in the bathroom. Weird. I think he is going to start sleeping wtih one eye open!

Anyhoo, between having trouble staying on my left side, the achey hips and back, and the heat, I am going out of my mind. I find myself uncomfortable with my snoogle pillow thingie too. aargh!!!!

[sorteep]

I have to get up to pee at least once now.. and last night I only slept 11pm til 1 am since I pulled my groin [pretty badly working and it hurt so much it kept me awake and i couldn't lie down... funny about the freak out on DH !! bet he laughed!

[maisiedotes]

Originally Posted by sorteep

I have to get up to pee at least once now.. and last night I only slept 11pm til 1 am since I pulled my groin [pretty badly working and it hurt so much it kept me awake and i couldn't lie down... funny about the freak out on DH !! bet he laughed!

Well, this morning he said "what the hell was THAT last night?" and I had no idea what he was talking about. I think he is going to start being super duper nice to me now... in case i freak out again.
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[monocyte]

Def not sleeping well at all. Once I get up to pee, its all over...Im up for the night.

DS and I have been sleeping on a blowup air mattress in the dining room since there is ac in there. He's such a snuggler, I love it, and hate it all at the same time. And he keeps telling me (even in his sleep) that he SMELLS MILK...I really, really don't want him to start nursing again. So, he's resorted to having his hand on my breast the.entire.night. I try to roll over, and he's up, climbing over me.

I really dont want to put him in his room, or upstairs (even with DH bc its just too freaking hot). DH even slept on the couch last night.

Everything is starting to get uncomfortable, hips, heartburn, calves, and not to mention the scene it is for me to get up off the airmattress on the floor in the dark to pee.

Ok, my vent is over...

[Frisbee]

Maisiedotes--I had a similar incident a couple weeks ago. I was having a bad dream that my DH was scolding me about something that wasn't even my fault. Somehow I woke up enough to lean over and give him a rude shove in bed. Yet at that moment I was still not awake enough to realize it was just a dream--some kind of primal physical instinct took over. A second later I woke up all the way and apologized. He was really sweet about it, hugged me and told me everything was okay, like it was a regular nightmare and didn't involve me attacking him in my sleep!

I have had the strangest dreams lately, not to mention getting up 2x a night to pee. I don't feel very rested in the morning. I get uncomfortable by the time morning rolls around and therefore can't sleep late on weekends. 3 months to go and it will probably only get worse!

Actually, I'm kind of enjoying the vivid dreams, except for the nightmare ones.

[*Lindsey*]

I started a thread about this a few weeks back. I'm not sleeping well at all, and it seems to be worse now that I lay around mostly all day and am not doing anything to make myself tired. Achey hips, sore back, pubic bone pain, arms/hands falling asleep, peeing a gazillions times, and the heat/humidity are all making it very hard to sleep well.

[Isaac'sMa]

Originally Posted by maisiedotes

Well, this morning he said "what the hell was THAT last night?" and I had no idea what he was talking about. I think he is going to start being super duper nice to me now... in case i freak out again.
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So maybe something good will come out of your night-attack of dh--you'll get pampered more! seriously, though, it's a funny story.

I'm sleeping like crap here too. It's a good night if I only have to get up twice to pee.

[scheelimama]

Well, I haven't slept well in weeks, but that's because I've been sleeping in other people's beds with kids on top of me and last night, when I was finally in my own bed, the house was quite hot with no a/c. I'll let you know in a week or two if I'm sleeping okay these days. I definitely need a body pillow or two to be comfy. Being my third, I really don't heed the "sleeping on your left side" stuff. I figure my body will let me know if I need to change positions. I still sleep on my back too. I try to keep a thin pillow under one side of me, but sometimes I'm just the most comfy on flat on my back. And yes, most nights, I get up 1-2 times to pee during the night, depending on how much I've drank through the evening.

[kathteach]

Yes, it's terrible! I've been waking up at 1 and 5 am on the dot for the last week. It makes me so mad since my toddler just started sleeping through the night (mostly.) I am terrified of the no-sleep newborn phase and want to get as much sleep as possible so it's really stressing me out.

[veganjoy]

I wake precisely at 4 a.m. every morning, and sometimes a few other times to pee. I know sleeping flat on my back isn't ideal, but it's the only way I can get decent rest...and I can't figure out where my arm is supposed to go when sleeping on my side!

My husband recounted for me what happened the other night: I was sleeping at a diagonal across the bed, and when he went to move me, I woke. "You're a funny redhead!" I exclaimed, several times, while touseling his hair. Which is entirely raven black. He said it wasn't so much the comment, but the maniacal laughter that followed it, that really creeped him out. Ugh. I have no memory of it whatsoever.

[lisalulu]

Me!! But mine isn't due to pregnancy. DS doesn't sleep through the night yet. We have him in his own room and he starts out there but after a few hours starts asking for me. Sometimes I go in until he falls asleep but about an hour or two later he's asking for me again. Instead, I usually end up sleeping with him in a twin bed and its not the most comfortable. If it weren't for that, I probably would be waking up at least once to pee though!

[Curlita]

It was super hot here a few weeks ago and I swear I was awake for 15 minutes, asleep for 45, get up to pee, rinse, repeat. Now that it is cooler, I'm sleeping better. But I'm starting to REALLY miss sleeping on my back. I sleep with a pillow between my knees, which helps a lot, but rolling over is such a production, what with repositioning the pillow, etc. I have to come almost fully awake to do it.

My husband has those kinds of night-time freak outs about once a month. He sometimes comes awake towards the end of them and gets embarrassed. It used to freak the bejesus out of me - he would sit up straight in bed or start flailing around looking for an attacker. Now I sort of automatically pat him and tell him to go back to sleep... kinda like I would with my kid.

[Valerieg]

I'm not sure...honestly...but I don't feel rested most mornings. The snoogle pillow was great with DD but it seems to be causing more harm than good right now since I actually end up on my BACK to avoid laying on it (maybe because it is hot, dunno). I'm a side sleeper typically so this is odd.

Plus I'm getting up once a night to pee. Not looking forward to any more than that.

[Googy]

Ugh. Me too.

[LittleLlama]

Terrible, terrible sleep here. We needed a new mattress as it was, but I'm so achy now that we just HAVE to get one. It hurts my hips, like the actual skin to be on my sides for too long... and of course there's the pubic bone/groin pain when rolling over that makes me stop halfway and whimper... and then I fall asleep and wake up with my lower back on fire.

To top it off, DH thinks he wakes up at 4:30 every day because that's when his alarm goes off. One of us does wake up... at which point I start hitting him in the back "Honey. Honey, your alarm. TURN THE FREAKING ALARM OFF OR GET OUT OF BED!!!!!" So round about 7 or 8 when Titus wakes up (I hear him banging the wall trying to get the picture of his horse saying NEIGH!) and I wake up, DH is still in bed... or had actually gotten up when I shoved him out and came back... Either way, I've been woken up by the alarm, then had to pee, then DH was bumping around, then on Saturdays my neighbor trims his hedges at 6am, then the cats start to get needy, then I get heartburn, then DH takes my pillow, and of course the whole time I'm boiling hot but if I take the blankets off, the air conditioning is down to about 12 degrees because DH may or may not be up in his insanely hot office so we have to be prepared either way, it's so cold that my sweat-damp clothes and skin get a frost coating .... you get the idea.

[BarefootinBrooklyn]

Well, as it's a quarter til 4am on a Sunday morning, I'll join the club...

I woke up at 3:30 from a vivid yet disturbing dream {my mom was warning my brothers and i about the watchful eyes of my dead father, and dh and i had just had sex against dr.'s orders and i was starting to bleed...more normal dream fare than usual mystical creatures and time travel, but still not enjoyable}. Started thinking about how we would walk to breakfast this morning, and then realized I was starving, so I had to make myself some oatmeal. And get up to pee.

Mainly I've been tossing and turning in the sea of pillows I set up for my own comfort, which becomes more of a nuisance than anything, especially when it's so warm in the evenings.

Honestly, the best sleep I've had this month has been on couches, some not even my own.

Friday night I was so frustrated with not being able to sleep that I burst into tears like a baby, and poor dh was trying to get me to calm down, but fell asleep himself. So of course that made me cry more. Then that night I dreamed we were getting a divorce, so of course I woke up in tears as well. I haven't talked in my sleep yet, that's usually his area of expertise, but y'all's stories are hilarious.

[YankeeMomInVA]

Not sleeping well here, either....and I'm getting awfully grumpy about it.
I have several pillows shoved in different places to provide support, but when I get up (at least 3 times) to pee, I have to do the set-up all over again....or, god forbid I should need to roll over at night b/c the part of me I was laying on is burning with pain, I wake up completely b/c I have to move all the dang pillows!

It wasn't this bad this soon with my first.... I'm trying to have a good attitude about it, but I'm exhausted when I "wake up" in the morning. And seeing dh sleeping soundly at 9am when I've been up for HOURS really makes my blood boil! lol (so I usually send ds in there to jump on him! )

Oh well.... it's all worth it in the end.... that's for two sures.... The main problem is getting to the end with some semblance of sanity, right?!

[GinaRae]

Normally I am in bed between 10pm and 11pm and then I pee after three hours, after three hours again, then every hour until I get up between 7:30 and 9:30. After I pee, I lay on my back for a few minutes with no covers to cool off, then curl up on the least offended side. You know, the side that doesn't hurt or feel like I was laying on cement.


After a busy day where I overdid it, I was feeling sick. This was last night:

10:30pm hubby watching YouTube in bed, I went pee one last time and tried to relax in bed

11:00pm went pee one last time and tried to relax

11:30pm Hubby turned off YouTube, I went pee one last time and rolled over and went to sleep.

12:50am Wake to pee, feeling really sick. Stomach hurts like maybe I've eaten something bad, sip water. Roll over to better side.

1:30am Wake to pee, stomach hurts still, take a Tums. Roll to good side. Roll back in a few.

2:20am Wake to pee, stomach hurts but I am too tired to figure out why. Roll over, out within seconds.

4:30am Wake to pee, stomach feels better, but I feel like hell. Can't find good side.

5:30am Wake to pee after a dream that the baby has just come out (24 weeks) fully encased in bag of water, I pushed baby back in and went to hospital where they tell me there's nothing they can do because baby is 24 weeks, baby dies and I wish I had stayed home. Yah, GREAT dream... Feel like hell, hope I can sleep in.

7:00am Son comes in whispering to hubby. I roll over a few times.

7:20am Son leaves in tears. I really want to care, but only manage to call out lightly.

7:30am Son comes back and lays down with us. I roll over several times.

8:10am Older boys awake and verbally fighting every few minutes in living room. I'm crabby and uncomfortable.

8:30am I give up on sleep, go pee again, and cuddle with hubby and son in bed.

9:00am I feel like heck, roll outta bed for a shower.

[YankeeMomInVA]

lol Gina... your "pee one last time" thing sounds just like me
I got up 5 times during a 1 hour and 35 minute movie last night just before bed. DH said to me finally, "Can't you just hold it and then go pee ONE time?" My evil eye told him the answer to that one

[crystalalene]

This is exactly the reason I wanted to get online today, to post a sleep thread--but you beat me to it!

I stopped counting how often I get up to pee. At least three or four times. And every time it surprises me awake so I don't just wander to the bathroom, I wake up and bolt up and rush into go. It makes me so awake that I just can't get back to sleep.

And then there's the cold we just had, so my nose is even stuffier than usual, and the acid reflux, and the my arms keep falling asleep, no matter which side I lay on, and my back and my hip are bugging me again.

The best sleep I get is if I take a nap out of sheer exhaustion.