"You will never sleep again"

You know, one of the many pieces of parenting "advice" or warnings I either did not believe or chose to ignore, was that I should sleep now (while pregnant...seriously what woman sleeps well while she is pregnant), because I would never sleep again. And, I laughed, every time. Mostly because I tend to deal with insomnia more often than not, so I am kind of used to not sleeping, and because I figured after a few months of newborn all-nighters, my sleep schedule would be back to normal. The beauty of it is that we were blessed with a good sleeper for the most part. I may have even laughed again, after Lane started sleeping through the night, at all the doomsday warnings of never sleeping again. Of course having only one child does make sleep more likely than having multiple children on different sleep schedules does (which means my sister, who has 3 children one of which is still an infant, really NEVER gets a full night's sleep). But then your child gets sick and after a couple nights of sleeping on the air mattress in his room, listening to him having difficulty breathing, whimpering and calling for mommy each hour, you are no longer laughing at the naysayers, but instead feeling the need to call every pregnant woman you know to warn her that she needs to sleep while she can, because she will NEVER sleep again!

***This post is mostly said in jest, since I know I will in fact sleep again (never a whole night though -see the insomnia reference, but mostly because my bladder seems to find joy in being most active between 10 PM and 4:45 am).

***I do recognize that some mamas out there really cannot remember the last good night sleep they had, and that my little whinefest will seem trivial and a little like bragging all at once. Please know I am mostly trying to make light of a situation where  I, a natural worrier, am very worried about how sick my little guy is :( I also highly respect and even envy you for those sleepless nights.