Sleeping and eating...not so much!

This is exactly what has been going on for the past week and this is an excerpt from What to Expect;

With midnight bathroom runs, leg cramps, heartburn, and your basketball-sized belly, it's no wonder sleep is elusive. Third-trimester insomnia strikes about three-quarters of pregnant women (who may also be coping with a mind that races all night long thinking about your to-do-before-the-baby-comes list).

To my recollection I have never experienced heartburn so a few nights ago when I was woken by a shooting pain through my upper ribcage I was confused...after some googling (of course) I realized that I had made my famous turkey meatballs for dinner which was accompanied by tomato sauce = acidic, and discovered yuck this is heartburn!!!! It was hard to breath, I couldn't lay down or sit down, so I made tea, and did some laps around the downstairs area. A fly on the wall must have been amused by that, front door to kitchen then lap around the kitchen island into living room and circle back to front door, I did this about 6 times, haha. I could finally breath again.

The next night I hardly ate anything and I had dozed off on the couch for about a half hour then came upstairs to go to bed, well that didn't go as planned. As soon as I laid down I felt like whatever food I had eaten hours ago was still sitting halfway between my chest and throat...ughhhh not this again?!? I dug deep into our medicine drawer and found Tums I had bought a long time ago (honestly I think I had bought them for our honeymoon but never used them), thankfully my forgetfulness was not in action at the time bcs. I found them, they happened to not be expired, YAY, and took two of them. We'll disregard the fact that I just brushed my teeth before I had to chew them, at least it was better than drinking OJ after brushing your teeth. After about 30 minutes and some iPad reading I felt a little better and was able to lay down and sleep, until I was woken by having to go to the bathroom - such a vicious cycle.

Any of you that know me know I have a very good appetite. Could be why I never seem to lose that "extra 10 pounds". I know I'm pregnant I'm not supposed to talk about dieting, regardless I love to eat, I love food and there is very rarely anything left on my plate when I eat, ok now I sound like a food hoarder, ha!! Well times have unfortunately changed :( Anytime I eat I am full for hours after, I am supposed to be eating several small meals to try to avoid heartburn but I just don't have much of an appetite because I am nervous it will all lead back to that one dreadful (lap around the kitchen) night of heartburn. My portion sizes are way down and I am headed back to the world of bland foods. Sigh...

Oh yeah and I do get the leg cramps too, I keep visualizing that it's cellulite growing, LOL! I don't know how they compare my uterus to the size of a honeydew melon at this stage when from the outside it looks like I swallowed...well quite frankly a baby!