One of the better pieces of advice that I've had in the last few weeks was this:
'Practice bending over now. You'll be doing it a lot when you've got a child'
Sound advice.
Alise and I both have issues with our backs. I have graduated from feeling a twinge in my back every now and then to now always saying 'oouuch' whenever I bend at a greater than 90 degree angle. Often I wake in terrible pain, and many of my older t-shirts now stink of Ben-Gay. For those of you that are not American, Ben-Gay is a menthol rub product, and not what your perverted minds are thinking it is.
To try to help ourselves, we've been talking about buying a new mattress. Many people with back complaints consider a good mattress the best purchase that they make, and no doubt we'd feel the same way. Since, however, we're a pair of cheap bastards; we've been exploring more frugal alternatives.
The first thing that we're trying is a mattress pad. This thing that we bought from Target is the consistency of a heavy comforter and sits on top of the mattress, below the ground sheet. We put it on last night and it transformed our bed from 'fairly normal bed' to 'most comfortable bed in the world'. Time will tell what effect this will have on our spines, but I'm not going to let this thing go without a fight.
This though, isn't the only difference to our sleeping. Alise is having to sleep on her side these days, for that's what's recommended. To aid this, last week we bought a body pillow. A big, long, soft, green thing that's now sharing the bed with Alise, myself, and our four cats who have decided to bury their individual differences for the sakes of somewhere warm and comfortable to sleep.
Things are getting a little crowded.
We don't have the largest bed in the world. It's a queen size, and on an average night contains 4 pillows, 1 super large pillow, 7 heartbeats and some crumbs. If this truly is the calm before the storm (which I'm in no doubt, it is), then it's going to be one hell of a storm.
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