Update - 7:50 am: Thanks for the support ladies! Your comments are so supportive and helpful. I do have some wonderful friends who have taken my daughter off my hands so that I could get some much needed rest. The two year old is not a problem because she naps for 2-3 hours in the afternoon anyway. I even have one friend who has taken both girls so I can get a break. My husband has also been super helpful. I think it's mostly just guilt on my part because it's not ME spending time with her. She has school until 1:30 Tuesday and Thursday, and we're at church until 12:30 or so on Wednesdays (she's in the childcare, while I'm at MOPS). So, I think that maybe I am missing the time I used to spend with her every afternoon. I am sure that I am making way more out of this than there actually is. It's just hard to deal with Mommy guilt, esp. when you're pregnant!

I got to sleep at around 1 am this morning, so six and a half hours is not too, too bad!

And yes, somehow I missed the fact that my blog was set to private. In my insomniac mania last night, I started playing with the settings and finally set it to public. I always just thought that a) my life wasn't interesting enough to comment on or b) everyone already had too many blogs to read to comment on mine .


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This is so stupid! I am awake again! It's almost 12:30 am and I cannot sleep. I hate insomnia! This pregnancy it has been at it's worst, to the point that I can barely function several day a week, I keep forgetting stuff, and I can't seem to focus at all on anything. I am so tired during the afternoons that I can't really stay awake and my 4 year old ends up watching way too much TV while I doze on the couch next to her. How sad is that? Poor thing! I know she has to be kind of lonely during that time, and I keep telling her that things will get better after the baby comes. But, I still feel bad. It doesn't seem to bother her too much, but it bothers me. She is such a sweet girl and I don't want her early memories to be of Zombie Mom asleep on the couch.

I also had a really lame OB visit last week, where he basically yelled at me for gaining too much weight last month. I pointed out to him how much weight I lost from being ill in the beginning and that I am only up 14 lbs. at 26 weeks. He became very embarassed and apologetic. I was really upet for the rest of the day. Also, I know that I ate horribly last month. I have not exercised in months. So, this made me feel evne worse about the whole situation, because I actually could be gaining less weight now and making life easier for myself after I deliver. Not to mention, I logged exactly one meal before I lost track and gave up. Pathetic.

OK, enough negativity. I wish I had a pregnancy hormone shut-off switch.