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Insomnia sucks.

I should have been dead to the world after yesterday's pool party, but I think I got about 3 hours of sleep last night. Life events and/or my general inability to sleep while pregnant (I can be not stressed at all and lie there awake perfectly happy but unable to fall asleep), combined with Leif's restless sleeping due to a cold, kept me awake until 4AM or so, when I finally started to nod off.

Then the chainsaws started.

Don't ask me why chainsaws and what sounded like other tree-trimming/chopping equipment were running at 4AM on a Sunday morning.

Then soon after that was done, koyote started having an asthma attack.

Then Leif started his usual morning restlessness, which left my remaining sleep time interrupted and weird.

I'm debating whether to take him home in a bit and try to get him to nap. I may feel a bit less wonky afterwards, but will it interfere too much with either or both of our sleep tonight?

A few weeks ago the BNL song "Who Needs Sleep?" came up in my playlist and I started laughing hysterically.

The strange part is that, erratic behavior and wild mood swings aside, I actually deal much better with sleep deprivation now than I did before Leif came along.

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Money is definitely a big part of it. Sufficient sums of money would clear most of the stress up nicely, and that would let me take a more sane view towards the remaining stress.

What brand of sling is it (if it's a NoJo, which is probably the most common found in thrift stores, I expect it just isn't going to work with your body shape - they're designed for people shaped basically like Dr. Sears), and have you tried different positions? At about that age, Leif started to protest the typical reclining position, and liked the vertical carry and front facing from this page better.

I'd send you my carrier to see if it worked for you, since I have plenty of time to make or otherwise obtain another for myself, but it's buried somewhere in storage :(