Sleepyhead

Sleepless attacks have returned again. For the past week or so, I haven’t been having the problem of disrupted night-time sleep until early this morning. I woke up at half past 1 in the morning to go to the toilet. When I returned to bed, I curled myself up against the nice, warm bed only to find sleep eluding me – again!

No sooner had I laid back on the bed, I felt two sharp jabs on my left abdominal wall. Elisha was awake! Oh dear! I quickly whispered to him that it was way past both our bedtimes, so won’t he please be good and go back to sleep so I could sleep too. And being the darling he is, his kicks eased into a gentle rolling in my tummy and I couldn’t feel him again. Baby Elisha was now asleep and what was his mummy doing?

Wide-eyed in bed. Mind racing. Random thoughts filtering in and out of my hazy sleep-deprived brain. Sometime in the midst of my semi-conscious state, I began to feel my tummy rumble. I tried to dismiss it by concentrating on getting my sleep. I refused to wake anymore muscles in my tired body. Alas! That did not work. When I finally decided to get out of bed to appease my appetite monster, I glanced at the clock. Horror of horrors!I was shocked that I had already stayed up for the good part of the entire wee hours! It was 4.40am when I went to fetch myself a snack of hot Milo and a SoyJoy raisin almond bar.

Argh! Fortunately, the warm drink and snack seem to work their magic and I was soon snoozing away soundly. I didn’t stir much for the rest of my sleep except to mutter an incoherent ‘goodbye’ to Roy when he left for work. However, I can feel the toll of the night’s disruption to my sleep cycle. I hope I can catch a good nap later in the afternoon before I get up to prepare dinner.