Sleeping or Lack There of

I imagine over the next 6 months (wow really only six months that freaks me out a bit) there are going to be multiple posts about this very topic.  For me sleep has always been something that I excelled at.

Exhibit A: Here I am asleep on a bus, which a friend pointed out is not the first time I have slept on a bus. (See exhibit B)

Needless to say I have always enjoyed my sleep.  Sean has always joked that usually by 10:30 I am asleep on the couch because my body just knows it is time for bed.  I am also the person who is happy to get up at 6:30 and get my day started because anything much later and I have wasted too much of my day.

All of this is a thing of the past and something I never really appreciated until it was gone.  Slowly my sleeping has gotten worse over the last 8 weeks.  Originally it started as I blogged here where I was just getting up early in the morning but now it has become a whole other kind of evil in part to the cold I have.

This cold has knocked me on my butt, normally I would just tough through it take a little nyquil and keep going about my day, but this just feels so different.  Because I am now having the most consistently bad sleeps of my life I spend my day dragging  just to get work done.  I then get home without any motivation to do anything and get to bed before 9, which is even early for me.

My new sleeping pattern is this: go to bed by 9:00 and fall asleep while propped up with pillows.  Then around 12:30 or 1:00 I start coughing which means I should move to the living room to try the couch out.  At this point I cough on and off for the next 30 to 45 minutes before falling back asleep.  If I am lucky I am asleep until my alarm goes off at 6:45, if I am not lucky than I will probably wake up a few more times.  Basically it is a crapshoot every night how it is going to go.

And because I am pregnant I can’t drug myself up on nyquil and go to sleep, not that I would over do it but an over the counter drug induced sleep can do a person good.

I am guessing that I am coughing in my sleep as well because even with 7-8 hours of ‘sleep’ I wake up exhausted leading me to believe I didn’t sleep very soundly.  The only good part about this is that once this cold goes away I should be back to my normal pregnant sleeping, which is much better than now.

So here’s hoping that my cold goes away soon because I am tired and I would really like to get some sleep.