MmmBoppy

Song Lyric of the Day:

So hold on to the ones who really care / In the end they’ll be the only ones there / When you get old and start losing your hair / Can you tell me who will still care?

Hanson / “Mmmbop“

I’ve had hip problems for a while now. Specifically, I was diagnosed with bursitis in my right hip. Incorrectly, it turns out, although I still don’t have an official diagnosis other than a bum/moody hip. So for almost nine years now, I’ve had trouble sleeping on my right hip. Once I got pregnant, I quickly realized I’d have to start sleeping with a pillow under my hips or figure something out to balance out the weight on my right hip. (FYI: Having to sleep only on your side while pregnant is really hard when you’ve been a lifelong stomach-sleeper.)

A friend suggested I try a full-body pillow, so I hit up Babies ‘R’ Us to see if they had anything specifically for pregnant women with bum hips. They didn’t have anything that specifically niche (shocking, no?), but on the recommendations of a couple of different associates, I ended up choosing the Boppy Total Body Pillow. They had a few different full-body pillows, but this one seemed like it’d work best for me. Thankfully, it’s helped keep a lot of direct weight off my right hip so that when I do sleep on my right side for the better part of the night I don’t end up limping around the next day. (You’ll have to forgive me — having suffered from insomnia off and on for almost as long as I’ve had the hip problems, I have to sing the praises of good sleep when I can.)

Having used only a foam pillow for so long, I got used to my new full-body pillow pretty quickly. I can now turn over onto my other side, still asleep, hanging on to my pillow the way a monkey clings to a tree. Behold:

See? Like a monkey on a tree. That’s how well I’m sleeping now. Well, OK, most days (see: insomnia comment above).