In Which I Misuse Bananas
I have a new thing about bananas. Let me show you it.
So. As pregnancy progresses, one finds that sleeping becomes more and more of a difficultness.
Sleep Deprivation
For one thing, there’s the increased size of belly. It gets in the way of rolling over. It gets in the way of finding a comfortable position. And if I don’t keep a pillow under it to support it, there’s pulling and pressure and all sorts of achiness. And yes, I gotta be on my side because of circulation to uterus, blood flow to baby, and fun things of that nature.
Also, there is a small head now continually using my bladder as a pillow. Getting up three times a night to go to the bathroom is pretty standard nowadays.
The thing is, when I wake up to pee or to change positions, it takes me anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours to get back to sleep. The 3-hour thing is especially bad, as the illustration here illustrates in a most illustrative manner.
My Thing with Bananas
Last week, after a particularly restless night (i.e. one of the 3-hour I’m-awake-and-can’t-stand-it things), I felt groggy and blah beyond all reckoning. I fixed my breakfast, ate it, and then started cleaning up my dishes. I’d had a banana in my cereal. I picked up the banana peel and headed for the bathroom.
I picked up the banana peel and headed for the bathroom.
I still don’t know why.
What was I going to do with the banana peel in the bathroom? Let us not speculate. Let us not go there. Ever, ever, ever.
Yesterday, there was another banana incident.
Once again, I hadn’t slept. But still, I eventually rolled out of bed (this is neither exaggeration nor metaphor) and fixed my breakfast. The bacon was in the oven. The raw eggs were in the skillet, awaiting their scrambling. The cereal was in the bowl, awaiting its milk. I picked up the banana, peeled it, and commenced to slicing it.
I looked down.
I had sliced the banana not into the cereal bowl but into the skillet of raw eggs.
As one does.
For the record, I picked the banana slices out of the eggs and threw them out; sliced another banana into the cereal; cooked the eggs; and ate a yummy breakfast.
I’m afraid of what will happen the next time I can’t sleep.
What will the bananas have in store for me next time?
I wait.
For the record, I was neither pregnant,nor sleep-deprived at the time I did that, but I chose to leave the banana in the skillet and cook it with the eggs. Drizzle on a bit of maple syrup, and you’ve got Dad’s favorite breakfast… sort of. (I’ve been told it’s a Canadian thing, but I have no way of knowing for certain.)
Well, if I didn’t have food aversion stuff going on STILL, I would’ve tried it out just to see if it works. The maple syrup addition sounds cramazing. Ima hafta try this out for real in a couple of months! : )