Shifting hormones have led to some sleep disruption this past year that I am not jiggy with. Sorry if you’ve always been a bad sleeper, but I’ve always managed a solid 8-hours my whole life. Now I have this thing where I’m wide awake between 4:30 and 5:15a most mornings, and I have a lot of trouble getting back to sleep. As any busy mom will attest, getting up at 4:30am and then still being functional for the 3-9pm afterschool/bedtime crunch is no pleasure. And as any insomniac will attest, the more you stress and worry about not sleeping, the less you sleep. [Read more…]