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Natalie
From hopeful TTC, through infertility, IVF and the resulting pregnancy, this became a journal through grief and trying again after the loss of our first son, Devin, at 36 weeks. After multiple more IVF cycles we got pregnant with our second child, a little girl born healthy and alive in May of 2010. Our third child, a most unexpected surprise baby girl, was just born in June 2012!

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Sleep… Trying To Get Some

November 27, 2007 — 1:52 am

About two years ago, when the snoring was an issue (before I’d figured out how to just roll him over to make it stop) Den bought some of those breathe-right strips. They didn’t work. So they sat, unused, in the bathroom cabinet.

Last night was really quite pitiful, because it didn’t matter how many times I woke him up or how I rolled him over, he still kept right on snoring. (I finally gave up on sleep at around 5am.)

Well Den found them today and decided to give them a try, given that his snoring has currently progressed far beyond snoring only when he’s on his back. He feels very stuffed up, so we figured it wouldn’t hurt to try. And I’ll be damned, but it’s helping a ton. He is still doing his normal snoring when on his back, but the new snoring-on-his-side is practically non-existant. I am so relieved!!

Not that this fixes my sleeping problems. See I’m not supposed to be sleeping on my back anymore – which, by the way, is weird because I normally hate sleeping on my back and ever since I got pregnant I find myself waking up like that quite frequently. Weird. So anyways, I know the “optimum” position is on my left side. I like sleeping on my left side, to be honest. But… I have this issue. I have a MAJOR issue with being breathed on. And Den sleeps on my left. So if he happens to be facing my way? I can’t sleep on my left side, I have to sleep on my right. And sometimes that gets really annoying because I want to roll over!

It’s possible that once I’m asleep it doesn’t matter and I can stay where I am… but I’m such a light sleeper I really wouldn’t be surprized if I rolled over every time he did during the night, even without really waking.

Is it any wonder I find sleeping during the day more restful? Makes me wonder if I’m even going to be able to sleep well with a babe next to me. I don’t have an issue with the dog though, never have (I have slept with a dog next to me – yes, head on the pillow just like a human – since I was about 14 and I sized up to a double mattress from a twin). I guess we’ll just try it and hope for the best.

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alison says:

November 27, 2007 at 11:48 am

Yikes, I hear ya with not wanting to be breathed on. j does that and it drives me bonkers. Have you thought about swapping sides of the bed for the rest of your pregnancy? We tried it once because we were doing the same facing-each-other-while-sleeping thing and it helped a ton.