To pee or not to pee that is the million dollar question. I'm sure a bunch of pregnant women and women with children will back me up on this. In my limited experience, this is a question that I ask myself about 10,000 times a day. 10 months ago I peed a normal amount, it wasnt a big part of my life, and I rarely if ever thought about it, now I think about it a lot. See here's the thing with pregnancy, you could have just found a bathroom, used it, washed your hands and planned to move on with your life, and then 1 minute later something stabs, or jumps on, or shifts and you have to find the bathroom again. When you're pregnant you spend a lot of time thinking about bathrooms whether it is to throw up or to pee, a lot of thought goes into finding them, using them, and avoiding them. Anyway back to the million dollar question. I feel like this comes up most either right as I am going to bed or some time around 2am, 4am, and 6am. These are the times when I sit there in the dark and weigh in my mind whether or not it is worth it to untuck myself from my nice comfy bed and visit the bathroom yet again. This is an internal struggle (and now one that has been broadcast on the internet), I could get up (which at this point requires a fair bit of effort) or I could sit there and hope that he will shift and I can just go back to sleep. At some point during this battle I usually give up in frustration, but I have to say it is a battle almost every time... I want to tap on my stomach and ask "seriously? can't you just let me sleep all the way through one night?" During these nightime battles I have come to one conclusion- this is practice for getting up to take care of a little baby, by the time he arrives I will be used to waking up every two hours and not sleeping or at least not sleeping for "long periods" won't see so out of the ordinary. But still, no matter what this is preparation for, I am sure tonight, tomorrow night, and every night until he is arrives around 2am I am going to rip the covers off and think "seriously!?"
Can you believe you just read an entire post about pee?
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In the words of my FIL, "an empty bladder is a happy bladder."
From one experience pregnant women to another, it's always better just to give in right away. Almost always, your bladder wins so why not get it over with and get another 20mins of sleep!
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