Oh, blessed Thermarest!

I know this will sound strange to anyone who loves their soft mattress at home...but Thermarest does wonders for a pregnant woman's back! The few weeks I've been waking up at home feeling achey and if I catch myself sleeping on my back it gets sore and uncomfortable. I've tried sleeping on my side and putting a pillow between my knees and different sizes of pillows under my head, but when I wake up in the morning, I just want to get up and stretch out the soreness.

Solution: found!

Over Labor Day weekend we went camping with the Roeda's (wohoo!) which required sleeping in our tent for four nights. Normally the first couple nights of camping I spend tossing and turning, adjusting to the narrow thermarest and confinement of my mummy bag while trying to keep my pillow from slipping away from me. (This is all in addition to the need to use the rest room at least once during the night, pregnant or not --- which is something I never have to do when at home...only when camping. How annoying.) (Let me assure you that I do enjoy camping and the sleep frustrations are really pretty minor - I still sleep pretty well when we go camping. Except for the bathroom thing - I hate that!) So anyway, I have to be honest and say that I was a little nervous about how sleeping on the ground would go, with my changing body and everything.

RESULT: It was GLORIOUS!!! I can't believe it still - I slept better than I ever have before when we've been camping...and I slept better this weekend than I have the last few weeks in my cushy bed at home! (PLUS - I never once woke up with the urge to go to the restroom - AMAZING!) I felt comfy in every position on the thermarest and never had an achy back if I woke up after sleeping on my back! I was wonderful.

Now, I don't think that I'll be opting for the thermarest on the floor at home over my bed with Brad...The aches aren't that bad yet!