Giving up

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.