The 6 stages of pregnancy sleep every woman experiences
by Melissa Willets posted in Pregnancy
When you find out you are pregnant, it's like being sentenced to nine months of majorly messed-up sleep. No, make that a year, or more. Because once baby arrives, it's not as if the likelihood you'll get any beauty rest improves. Here are the stages of pregnancy sleep every woman can count on experiencing, in order.
Early first trimester coma-like sleep. You may not even know you are pregnant, but you know you haven't made it past 8 p.m. in a week. Did someone drug you" For the seventh night in a row" Are you getting sick" Nope. You are pregnant. Get used to feeling like you've been hit by a truck before lunchtime for the next few months.
Late first trimester interrupted sleep. You are still bone-tired, and may fall asleep easily, but nausea, night sweats and weird-ass dreams will wake you every few hours. Keep Cheerios by the bed, and expect to strip naked by dawn. As for those dreams" Yeah, that was pretty deranged. Early second trimester insomnia. You have to pee. So you get up to use the bathroom, then proceed to lie awake, staring at the ceiling for the next hour or longer. You toss, you turn, you take a Tums for heartburn. You Google, ?what my baby looks like at 15 weeks.? You kick your husband who is snoring soundly beside you. You make a mental list of baby names your mother hasn?t said she hates. Eventually, you doze off. Repeat, repeat, repeat.
Late second trimester blackout sleep. Like first trimes...
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