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So I’m going through another cycle of not sleeping and thought I would share my story of the other night. So husband is away for a couple of nights and the child has decided it’s a good opportunity to sleep in my bed. We go to bed early because it’s a school night and I think this is a great opportunity to get some sleep in. Light goes out, the child is sleeping within minutes and I’m turning over from one side to another to get comfy. I’m hot, so I get up and adjust the fan to be directly on me instead of oscillating, now I need to pee.…. Get back into bed and ahhh the fan feels nice for a minute, then I’m hot again. Reach over and have a few (note, few sips) sips of icy cold water. I sleep with a body pillow, so I’m snuggled into that, but I’m too hot so I move away from that, but sleeping on my side my knee is now stretching over my other leg and onto the bed. That’s hurting and now my hip is starting to hurt, so I roll over again and the child has now encroached on and over my body pillow, so I’m basically balancing on the edge of the mattress. I give up on trying to sleep so grab my phone and read for a bit until I’m literally nodding off. Yes, I think to myself, sleep is going to happen now. Put the phone back, plug in the charger and take another sip of cold water, just to make sure my mouth isn’t dry and my insides are nice and cool………..and what do you know, I need to pee again. So I get up and go again, get back into bed and the wave of sleepiness has gone again!! I’m determined to sleep, so I get comfy again and tell myself that it’s going to happen and maybe I can watch the pretty colours you see when you close your eyes. Then the outside sensor light goes on which lights up the whole hallway and in turn our room as well. Never been able to set the sensor quite right so whenever a car goes past, the light comes on. That makes me start to think about what if there is someone outside and they might break in, so then I start to do an inventory of what weapons I have handy if that should happen and how I will get the child to safety while I’m fighting off this hypothetical intruder. That sort of thinking makes me hot again, so I have another sip of water which requires me to move in the bed to reach it………..and now I need to pee again, so up I get again to take care of that. So, we both seem to have a bit of gas and the child lets rip and I get the giggles, luckily he doesn’t wake up, but relieving the gas has meant he needs to get comfy again and is trying to move closer to me, and at that time I’m expelling gas too and now got the giggles even more. Trying to laugh quietly is quite hard and that makes me hot again especially with the child nearly on top of me. I move him over, take another sip of cold water and the mind chatter starts again. I think to myself that this series of events will make a great post in the group, so I then start to think about what I can write. I’m getting really shitty now, so think I’ll just get up and go write the post, but in my mind (very scrambled due to fatigue) I think that if I get up then it will wake me up more. Wow really? Because I can be woken up more than I am!!!!! I have this war in my head for a while and staying in bed to persist with trying to sleep wins. Needless to say, I didn’t sleep and these events continued until daylight when I actually went to sleep for about an hour. Just to clarify, I don’t normally get up so many times to pee but it had been a really hot day and I had drunk a lot of water. Does anyone else have these crazy nights??