It’s no secret that Mike snores. The man can snore while sleeping on his stomach. And I’m not even kidding. Burke does this hilarious imitation of him that’s a cross between totally obnoxious and right on (grinning the whole time, of course).
Before Mike and I got together, I was one of these people who took like, 30 minutes to fall to sleep at night. Wind down from the day, review stuff that happened, think about what’s suppose to go on the next day, etc… I’m also one of those people who sleeps with a fan on every night so that I don’t have to hear outside noises – Light sleeper and all that. Mike is one of those people who falls to sleep the second his head hits the pillow (sometimes before), and is snoring 2 seconds after that. And I’m not even kidding. Let me tell you, this makes for incompatible sleeping!
When we first got together, we tried everything…SnoreStop, those little breathe easy/nose strip thingies, aromatherapy. Ya – Mike’s immune. I even had him try to get into one of those sleep study things…but you have to have a doctor’s referral for that, and there’s no real evidence of sleep apnea, so they won’t let him in.
Luckily (?) since we’ve had the kids, I fall dead asleep the moment my head hits the pillow now as well – so most nights are all good. If I’m asleep before he starts snoring, it usually doesn’t wake me up. It’s the nights when one of the kids wakes up for a second or two – which means that I’m awake enough to be bothered by Mike’s snoring – that KILL me. (Like last night…) I poke him to turn on his side. Like that’s going to help. I poke him again after a few minutes to turn on his stomach. Like that’s going to help. I wage this inner war, “Do I poke him again? Do I go sleep on the couch? Do I just lie here and TRY to fall to sleep? Do I ask HIM to go sleep on the couch?” *sigh* None of the options seem very fair. Last night I opted for the just lie here and try to fall to sleep. About an hour and a half later I finally managed to…until Logan woke up an hour after that.
…it’s 10:30 and I’m on my 3rd cup of coffee. My normal intake is 2 cups – tops. Should be an interesting day 😉
Filed under: me, Mike | Tagged: snoring, Stop the insanity! |
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That is soooo funny b/c last night I was talking to my hubby about his snoring habits of late too!
It’s soooo darn annoying! He’s gotten quite use to my slaps to the stomach to wake him and change position.
But I saw a commercial on tv over the weekend for snoring and it’s a mouth piece…..I sooooo have to look into this! B/c last night I was seriously considering taking to the couch.
Oh, I feel your pain. My husband has one of those CPAP machines, because he participated in a sleep study, and they found that he was waking up once every 6 minutes or something like that, because he was short of oxygen. Now, as long as he wears his machine, he doesn’t snore. But it makes this whooshing noise, so it’s kind of like sleeping next to Darth Vader. Weird!
OH boy! Have I been there and back with my husband! UGH! I do the poke and ask him to turn over all night long. LOL
ps I will finally be posting the Mommy Meme you agged me for on Thursday 🙂
Uh oh. My hubby snores, but I think I may be worse! (Although he’s a deep sleeper, and it takes me longer to fall asleep, so hopefully, he usually sleeps through the worst of it!)
Had a friend like Heather’s husband…she said his whole attitude improved once he “got” (via CPAP) the sleep he was missing.
Good luck!
I can so totally sympathize with that! Mine snores so loud that he actually wakes me up.
Sorry dear- that’s my life too.
I love him so much let me just say that so I don’t fee like weinie.
I try to PRAY that he will stop or that it will be a consistent rhythm of snoring so I can fall asleep…lately though HE’S better and MY allergies are kicking in.
Payback time baby.