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[ocelot]

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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[koyote.livejournal.com]

i figured out the chainsaws. a large part of a tree fell down into 3rd street

[telemicus]

yeah, if I get 4 hours sleep then I'm great these days, before Lachlan I thought that I could handle sleep deprivation, but really I had no idea. What kills me most is when he sleeps for only 1hr, and I have wasted 45 mins lying in bed trying to sleep, then I get the 15 mins of being dead to the world before he wakes. Trying to function on just a series of 15 min naps = insanity inducing!
Sympathies.

Here's my itsallaboutme take on what is cryptically bothering you these days (i'm just guessing, and transferring) I bet its the whole I have a kid and no money thing, because of all the daily trials, from AC to a baby bjorn. (we can't afford one and the $3 knock-off we have doesn't work, and the $10 sling from goodwill is unusable, baby just screams in it, sigh) There are sooo many difficulties that could be fixed by throwing $ at the problem, and now i totally get why middleamerica does just that.

anyway, i have no useful advice or anything, just sending you sympathy and empathy.

[christyfsu.livejournal.com]

Tylenol PM has become my best friend lately.... I so hear you on the insomnia. It sucks :/

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

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 :(