Too tired to come up with a good title for this post
Probably my least favorite late-pregnancy symptom is this wicked insomnia. It’s 2:26 a.m. and I’m WIDE awake. And it’s far from the first time I’ve been online, reading, or watching TV at some ungodly hour. It’s miserable.
I talked to my doctor about it earlier this week and she thinks it’s totally normal, but she did offer a prescription of Ambien. I want to avoid that if possible, even though it’s been proven mostly safe for pregnant women. So I took her recommendation of a nightly Benadryl or Unisom. Though she told me to call her if I changed my mind about the Ambien.
I have taken Unisom a few times and have found that it makes me really groggy the next day, so tonight (or last night, I should say) I opted for a Benadryl. Several hours later, here I sit, still awake.
Suddenly, Ambien is starting to look pretty good.
Just a few minutes ago, as I was watching the Olympics, as NBC came back from commercial a screen flashed up that said “This encore presentation of prime time Olympics is brought to you by Ambien.” Followed immediately by an Ambien commercial.
That is some fucking brilliant marketing right there. I kinda want to get a prescription just to reward them for that stroke of genius.
Then again, that might be the sleep deprivation talking.