This combination of pregnancy tiredness, and 'not being able to sleep' tiredness, and 'toddler waking up way too much' tiredness, has well and trully hit me.
In fact, I had to drag myself out of bed at 2:30pm (yes PM!) for my doctors appointment, and the disconcerting feeling of dozing off on the couch, has become all too familiar. I think people are getting used to me yawning all the time!
But the most disconcerting of all is waking up in the middle of the night and finding your Sweetheart lying next to you, and you CANNOT remember at ALL them coming to bed.
"Sweetheart, because I'm gonna have such an early night (7pm) I'll get up when you come home from work so I don't end up waking up at 3am again." Yeah right... I must have been in such a deep (probably unconscious) state of sleep, one moment I was tucking myself in at 7pm, next thing... I wake up, roll over, man in my bed... 3am AGAIN? What the? Oh well, so much for getting up for a Milo, and to do the dishes at 10:30! This from the chickie who took to wearing earplugs through her previous pregnancy because she is normally such a light sleeper, and would wake up to the sound of a mouse farting!
The next most disconcerting feeling. Actually MORE disconcerting, and more scary, I think, because it's the kind of thing that could cause serious injury.
The drive down to the shops for my doctors appointment.
When you have the feeling you really shouldn't be awake, and although you are obviously NOT in bed, it is also quite obvious that you SHOULD be, and your brain still thinks so. I realised this upon reaching the end of my street, and forgetting how on earth I managed to get through two roundabouts... then all that goes through my head is that 'Drowsy drivers die' thing... and something about microsleeps. Can you still have a microsleep at 2:30pm? I'll have to ask Dr. Karl that one. Needless to say, it's only a one minute drive to our shops and very quiet roads, and well, I'm here typing this.
So I live to fight another day... or sleep another day!
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