by Michelle Stein posted in Mom Stories

Why am I so tired, you ask"
The obvious answer is I'm less than one week away from giving birth to my third child: I spend my nights trying (and mostly failing) to get comfortable in bed and my days running around two young kids and working from home.
I could just leave it at that, and you'd probably take my word for it -- but I have proof! In fact, my Fitbit can lay it all out there for you with actual data about how the third trimester has affected my sleep quality.
To start, the screenshot below shows a pretty typical night of sleep for me these days. Each light blue line represents restlessness and pink bars of color are awake time. On this day, I was restless 25 times, awake 5 times and my total awake/restless time was 56 minutes. So although I was physically in bed for more than 7 hours, the amount of actual shut-eye was much less and very broken up.
And is it just me, or is it super annoying when your non-pregnant significant other complains about being tired" Just no. I have a giant watermelon for a midsection that causes me to toss and turn all night long, AND I get up multiple times to empty my poor, squished bladder.
Here is how my husband slept one night last week, compared to my night's sleep, to put things in perspective.

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