Preggie Pops and Snake Pillows

It always amazes me how so many birds begin to sing, just as one is drifting off to sleep. Normally, I love the sound of all my mite infested, feathered, frie...creatures. Although, I used to sleep like I'd climbed Mt. Everest and swam the Channel twice over, so waking up to the smell of delightful coffee brewing,and the chaotic mess of noise coming from my window was merely a gentle nudge to get up and seize the day! Now I find that being just four months pregnant, your joints and back refuse to let you get comfortable. The lovely people who know absolutely everything about be pregnant, midwives they call them, tell me, " One cup of coffee a day." Gah!! Do they know who I am?! Also, I can't sleep on my back anymore, or on my belly and if I sleep on a side- it should be my left. Great! I have an option. Except this is the most uncomfortable, so the night is spent flip flopping like the fat carp that shoved it's way to the top of the pile at Pymatuning Dam for a bunch of stale bread. However, the wonderful world of catering to complaining expectants, have come up with this "Snoogle" as they call it, namely, a pillow that slightly resembles a snake. Properly used this snake pillow allows the prego pop mom to sleep like they would with a Boa constrictor, completely motionless and for Pete's sake on their LEFT side. My inner cheapskate has a hard time paying more than twenty dollars for anything, much less a snake pillow so I came up with this ingenious idea. Using the cute decorative pillow that Husband always throws on the floor (he has a lack of appreciation of the finer things) I place between my knees and sleep peacefully as if on a cloud of cotton. That is until it goes flat, or scooches down to the bottom of the bed, or until Husband yanks at it thinking the blankets are all twisted. All that to say, this morning, the owls, doves, wrens, crows, chickadees, and chipmunks were facing great peril of a pellet gun, that is until I felt the small flutter of a five inch baby inside my belly asking for breakfast of eggs, bacon, waffles with boysenberry syrup, and COFFEE. So glad it's taking after me...