Gotta Pee

Pregnant women pee a lot. This is a known fact. Most of them have a hard time peeing a whole bladder-full at a time and thus take many unsuccessful trips to the bathroom.

That’s not my problem.



Each time I make a trip to the bathroom, it’s a worthwhile visit. My problem is the number of visits I make to the bathroom in any given night. We tend to go to bed somewhere from 9 to 10pm. I generally lie in bed and read for a little bit so help me to go sleep. In the 15 minutes or so that’s my “get ready to sleep” time, I go to the bathroom three times. There are many days when I go come back, go into bed and have to go again. It’s not “psychological” either. I pee each time. More than a few drops. So don’t go around thinking I am insane. I just seem to be producing pee in Superman speed.



Once I go to sleep, my lovely bladder wakes me up every one and a half hours for a trip. That means that on a night where I sleep from 10pm to 7am, I wake up six times. If you add that to the three I did right before sleep, I go to pee NINE times between 9pm and 7am. It seems to me that that should be physically impossible. But it’s not. I am living proof.

After several nights of this, I have decided maybe I should just move into the bathroom at night. Sleep on the toilet. It might be a bit comfortable but I bet, if I work on it, I can manage to pee without waking up and actually get a full night’s sleep.