Snoogleness!

One of the things that pregnancy books don't make exactly clear to you is that once your belly grows even the most minuscule amount, sleeping becomes a more difficult task. It really gets complicated when you have been accustomed to either sleeping on your belly or your back, like my self. I have never, ever been a side sleeper and ever since sleeping on my belly has not become a possibility I found myself waking up and not feeling like I have slept at all. Like I told Nate the other day, "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."

At first I adapted and began sleeping on my back. That worked up until about month three. I did read that sleeping on your back can be troublesome because the weight from the uterus then becomes too heavy and it pinches a blood vessel which causes your legs and arms to fall asleep. I did not take this warning seriously and at about week 12 it happened to me. It was about 2:30 am and I woke up immediately out of my sleep and could not feel my arms or legs. It took me about 30 seconds to realize that it was because I was sleeping on my back. It reminded me of one of those mystery diagnosis stories on TLC that I have recently began taking more interest in on television.

This is when sleeping on belly and stomach became a no go. My mom had been telling me to go out and get a pregnancy pillow but I didn't want to fork out 65.00 for a decent one. So, for about a week after I just slept with a pillow between my legs and suffered with that. I then was watching TV and an ad came up for the snoogle. Now, I know TV ads try to sell you things that you don't need all the time, but damn I was in need of a pregnancy pillow and this thing looked so legit! I then decided right then and there I need a snoogle.

I went to my local Babies R' Us and picked up the angelic snoogle. I inspected the package and thought this is the cure to all my bad sleeping! I mean heck even the lady on the pillow looked like she was slumbering for about 12 hours no problem.

I mean what pregnant lady who can't sleep wouldn't buy it after seeing this beauty on the box.

Thank goodness I had a 25 dollar gift card, so I picked this bad boy up for the bargain price of 45 dollars.

The realities of the snoogle is that it is truly amazing for me. I now sleep through the night and even have dreams that I can remember again.

This alone makes up for the two downsides to the snoogle:
1. Its a total romance killer. No way anything frisky is going to happen when this bad boy is being used. It's like the Berlin Wall, where I'm East Germany and Nate's side is West Germany.
2. You don't look anything like the lady on the package when using it.

Nate snapped this wonderful pic of me sleeping.... thanks honey

Julia