Pregnancy Insomnia

Have I mentioned yet that I'm troubled with pregnancy insomnia? Maybe I'm not keeping myself busy enough during the day, or maybe I'm just thinking about too many things to sleep . . . I just don't know.

But as I am writing this, it is 4:47 AM and I have not yet gone to bed. Or rather, I have not yet gone to sleep. (I did lay in bed briefly, but realized I was much too awake to actually go to sleep.)

And I'm debating. Have I just thrown off my schedule so badly that my days and nights are reversed? Right now, the signals that my body are sending me tell me that it is probably around midnight. However, the clocks (and the rest of the population going by MST) tell me that it is almost 5 in the morning, and I should have been in bed hours ago.

Or really, is this just pregnancy-related? My doctor says so. He even said that if I wanted to, I could try taking sleeping pills (over the counter ones). And I've tried that route. It just doesn't work.

So question. Should I just stay awake all through tonight and tomorrow in hopes of tiring myself out enough to get some sleep tomorrow night? Or will this not-being-able-to-sleep cycle just continue?

I know that when I don't get enough rest, I'm pretty sickly all day long. Even with medicine, my stomach is still tender, and I'm basically worthless as a homemaker.

I also know that if I go to bed now, I probably won't fall asleep for a while. (I might even be awake when the sun starts to peek over the mountaintops.) And I know that once I do fall asleep, it will be almost impossible to get me out of bed and awake before noon. After all, my body still acts like it needs 8+ hours of sleep--it just has forgotten when the appropriate time is to get sleep.

And I know, I know, when Baby H comes along, I'll never sleep again. But at least then I'll have a reason for not sleeping. (Right?)

Until then, however, I do miss keeping normal hours.

(Confession: I even starting singing myself a lullaby the other night. Except, I couldn't remember all the words. So I got out the computer and googled them. Only to find out it wasn't a real lullaby. Just a pretend lullaby from one of my very favorite movies when I was a little girl. Check it out below.)