I remember the hardest part of Sugarplum’s early days was the sleeping.\u00a0 Waking every few hours, while exhausting, never really bothered me with Honeybun\u00a0but with Sugarplum it was completely overwhelming.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to be able to blame the feeling on having Honeybun\u00a0in addition to Sugarplum but realistically I also had family around, all the time, and they were fantastic at taking care of Honeybun\u00a0so I could just focus on Sugarplum.<\/p>\n
But still, within the first few weeks I found myself dreading night time.\u00a0 I would stay up late just because I knew I wasn\u2019t really going to get to sleep and I would get up early because I knew I wasn\u2019t really going to get to go back to sleep.\u00a0 In between night feedings I would stress about falling asleep and getting woken up again before I was rested.\u00a0 The feeling only lasted a few weeks until we started extending time between night feedings but those few weeks of night time were tough.<\/p>\n
The funny thing is, it never really affected my day time attitude.\u00a0 I was tired and rested when I could but don\u2019t remember being overwhelmingly fussy or irritable.\u00a0 I just avoided sleeping I guess because I felt like it wasn\u2019t going to help and knew I would just feel terrible when I woke up.<\/p>\n
Well, almost 35 weeks pregnant and that feeling is back.\u00a0 I am completely unable to get comfortable at night and don\u2019t really sleep.\u00a0 I just don\u2019t even feel like going to bed because I know I\u2019m just going to be uncomfortable and I\u2019m not going to be able to sleep well, if at all, so I just stay up, lay awake, whatever.\u00a0 And though I\u2019m exhausted, I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m any more miserable than I would be otherwise.\u00a0 What really affects my attitude right now is the discomfort of a baby taking up residence in my ribs (which is what also keeps me up at night).<\/p>\n
I\u2019m hoping once baby is out I can get past the sleep issues and not have the same newborn feelings I had with Sugarplum.\u00a0 I\u2019m just ready to snuggle down into my covers and fall asleep without being uncomfortable.\u00a0 Someday my night will come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I remember the hardest part of Sugarplum’s early days was the sleeping.\u00a0 Waking every few hours, while exhausting, never really bothered me with Honeybun\u00a0but with Sugarplum it was completely overwhelming.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to be able to blame the feeling on having Honeybun\u00a0in addition to Sugarplum but realistically I also had family around, all the time, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-baby-business","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}