Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Sleep Bank

When you're pregnant, everyone tells you to "stock up on sleep." Toward the end of my pregnancy, I began to find this particularly annoying. As I said before, sleep isn't something you can store away for later, though admittedly, it'd be nice if it was.

This has become a bit of a joke between John and I, and after a few sleepless nights this week, we had this conversation via text when I learned a co-worker is expecting a girl, due in May.

Me: {My coworker} is having a girl.

John: Tell him to store up his sleep while he can!

Me: Dangit. Forgot to get my sleep out of storage this morning!

John: I grabbed three hours from the deep freezer. Feeling like a kid again.

Me: Thank goodness we stocked up on sleep before.

3 comments:

Darcy said...

hahaha, you said it! i hated when people said that too....ugh....i wish it were true tho!

The (Type A) Nightmare said...

This is awesome! ;) Not to mention that it is virtually impossible to sleep at the end of a pregnancy (at least for me). I'm looking forward to having middle of the night company, at this point... even if it is crying. ;)

Anonymous said...

Actually, there is some evidence in favor of the 'sleep bank' idea:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8504867.stm

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