Why I Am Not Sleeping (by Jenn)

I have been having a VERY HARD time sleeping lately. But...don't worry, I may have solved my problems. Here is why I am not sleeping well:

1. My sweet baby dogs will only sleep with me at night. Pretend I am sleeping on my right side with my knees slightly bent. Nelly makes her way to the top part of my legs resting her head close to my ever growing belly and what Rian likes to refer to as my "crotchal region." Macy then precedes to sleep next to my right shoulder, curled up in a ball usually with her head tucked under my covers or on my pillow. It is precious. Every night Rian and I comment on how cute it is. Well, I don't know if you have ever been pregnant dear reader, but you get HOT when you are pregnant. I like to think of hot as better looking, but what I really mean is my temperature is going up and up to the point where last night I had the ceiling fan on, a smaller fan pointed directly at me on, the window open and no heat on. I was sweating like a freak of nature. I think that the dogs are obviously increasing my temperature a bit as well. So every time I get to hot, I wake up and then I have to pee.

2. My hips are KILLING me at night. If I sleep on one side for to long (you can only sleep on your sides when you are pregnant), my hip on that particular side starts hurting so bad that I wake up and have to roll over. So every time my hips start to hurt, I wake up and then I have to pee.

3. Rian wakes up very infrequently during the night. But when he does, he wakes me up, and then I have to pee. Also, Rian will sometimes wake up and say something to me, or start a mini-conversation, which he has learned quickly not to do because if I am really tired, I just yell at him and tell him I am trying to sleep. I then feel bad for being snotty, wake up and then I have to pee.

4. I have to pee a lot during the night. I think last night was a record of five times between the hours of 11:00pm and 6:00am.

Here is what I am doing to try and make it better:

1. Using many fans and cooling devices. I also sleep in the most minimal amount of clothing possible. (We are talking bras and underwear here people). This is not working.

2. I try yelling at Rian to get him to help me with whatever my problem is. This is not working.

3. I try drinking all my main liquids earlier in the day so that maybe my pee problem will taper off at night. This is not working.

What I am going to try in the near future:

1. Sleeping in a different bed.

2. I just got a Snoogle pillow last night, we'll see if that works. I tried it for about an hour, and it was glorious.

http://leachco.stores.yahoo.net/snoogle.html

3. I may buy a walk in refrigerator/freezer to sleep in.