[January 20th] Sleep: How’d you sleep last night? How does the quality of your sleep impact how aware you are throughout your day?
As with life with an infant, I slept fitfully. You know the expression “sleeping like a baby”? Yeah, well, that shouldn’t mean “I had a great night’s sleep!” — it should mean “I kept waking up and couldn’t go back to sleep.” I also can’t just say, “hey, honey, can you please detach my breast and feed the baby?” No. That is a physical impossibility. So, it’s me, Junior, and a breast all nestled down in the solitude of night.
Now, I’m very particular about my sleeping patterns. I get less than eight hours, I’m typically cranky, groggy, and slow. If I get less than three or four hours, I tend to act irrationally — I become far too hyperactive for the near-sleepless state I’m in. My body likes sleep. When forced to undergo periods of sleep deprivation, I can feel that my body’s not rejuvenating itself like it should. I’ve been known to cry when I’m forced to stay awake (please don’t let me fall into enemy hands — they will know exactly how to torture me). However, I do understand that my current sleep deprivation is through 50% of my own fault (I take credit for the little ovum I provided to create our little bumble bee), so I just comfort myself that in a couple more years I’ll be able to get a solid eight hour block each night again. In the meantime, I’m trying to pretend that my eyelids don’t have fifty ton weights hooked onto them.
