I am giving up on this blog.
Mostly because I now have shoulder pain that does not allow me to sleep. I am utterly unqualified to write about sleep. I haven't had a good, solid night's sleep since March.
Now that I can only sleep on my back -- except that I can't sleep on my back -- I have at least found one thing that helps a little:
I lay my down pillow across my stomach.
I have a terrible time sleeping when my stomach is "un-grounded." This was a problem when I was pregnant, because prior to that time I had always slept smack on my stomach, grounded against the bed. When I no longer could sleep in that position, I learned to push my baby-filled stomach up against Shawn's back for a similar "grounded" sensation. I learned to sleep on my side this way. I still have a hard time sleeping on my side when I am by myself and the air in front of my stomach is all full of emptiness.
Sleeping on my stomach hurts my neck and back.
Now that I can no longer sleep on my side due to shoulder pain, I have to ground my stomach by laying my pillow across it. It gets hot. Last night I had a lot of dreams.
If I ever think of something significant, I might come back. But let me officially put to rest any pretenses about this being a regularly maintained blog.
It isn't.
