The Nest

This peeing has got to stop!

Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:09 AM

I can't take it anymore!  I want to stop sitting on a toilet!  I've never so much wished I were a man and could pee standing up without totally lowering my pants.  Wait, I take that back because in the middle of the night, I'm so tired that I lay my head on the sink (only time I'm happy we have a tiny bathroom) to keep myself from falling back asleep and right off that toilet...so standing would be bad in the middle of the night.

I pee, no kidding, an average of 5 times every single night.  Whether I drink a lot before bed or stop consuming all beverages before 9 pm, I pee like a maniac.  I will literally pee RIGHT before getting into bed, but every single night, something about going from standing to laying down, I immediately have to pee again, not even 15 minutes after I just peed.  And these aren't little barely-there tinkle pees...these are all-out full-supply pees.  Where is this pee coming from?

I pee before leaving work every day.  Within the fifteen minutes it takes me to get home, I'm squeezing my legs together in the car trying to avoid damaging my underwear, clothes, and upholstered seat!  This is how often and badly I have to pee, all the time.  And when I have to go, I have to go...as in right then that second.  Please tell me this goes away after the first trimester and I have a tiny bit of relief before the third trimester when I'm huge and my bladder is being crushed by my uterus.