Feeling like a Zombie

Pregnancy, at least for me, has been exhausting. You're making a human being, and that's tiring. So why when you're already exhausted, does your body make it impossible to sleep? It's just not fair. Maybe it's because I've had insomnia since I was 13; but I had stopped my medication all together when Mike and I started trying to have a baby and I did fine up until a week and a half ago. Even before that I had gone from taking 150 mg of Trazodone to 25 mg and was sleeping fine. So I think it probably has something to do with both the fact that I've had insomnia for the better half of my life and the fact that I'm pregnant.

So after a week of only getting 2-3 hours of sleep a night was followed by three nights of getting absolutely no sleep at all I called my OBGYN. I talked to a nurse and she talked to a doctor who prescribed me 5 mg of Ambien. So I took it that night hopeful I would finally get some sleep. No such luck. I called my doctors office back and scheduled an appointment with a different doctor for the next day (that was the soonest they could get me in). The next day I had Mike drive me to the doctors (I didn't think I should be driving with how exhausted I was) and we met the nicest doctor yet. She was kind and understanding and wrote me a note for work since I had missed three days so far. Anyways she thought that I should go back to Trazodone since it has worked in the past for me. She also thought that it was safer than Ambien to take while pregnant, although it is also a class C drug, which pretty much means they don't know a ton about how it affects the baby since you cannot do drug studies on women who are pregnant; but from women who have taken it while pregnant there have been no adverse effects on baby. Also every doctor is different and has different views on different drugs. Any how she advised me to start off with 25 mg and wait an hour and if I'm still not asleep to take another 25 mg, and so on and so forth. Since I was there in the office she took a listen to baby's heart beat. I wasn't really worried about baby, but it's always nice to hear the beating of your unborn baby's heart. Still holding at 156 beats per minute :)

Anyways, last night I got to 75 mg and finally fell asleep for a couple hours, but, like all pregnant women, I had to get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and couldn't get back to sleep. Well at least that's better than no sleep at all. So tonight I shall start off taking 75 mg and hopefully that will keep me asleep even through getting up to go to the bathroom, but if not I guess I'll take another 25 mg.