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Pregnancy Insomnia & 9 Months Worth of Morning Sickness

This isn't a scientific study or evidence based anything. It is just my experience and my thoughts on the matter. I have dealt with insomnia my whole life but pregnancy insomnia is on a whole different level. Sleeping while young and busy is something that you can play with amounts and timing. Unfortunately, when  you are pregnant and already a mother that is something that is essential to daily life. If one nap or hour is missed, life goes haywire. Working while pregnant caused me to think twice about what was priority . I had to rarely get to work when the spots swimming in front of my eyes blocked my vision and my head in the toilet caused my already tardy self to be not only later but absentee . I was so sick straight through my fifth month with no "just the first trimester" morning sickness. It was going to last all throughout my pregnancy and I had to find a solution. The first solution was to constantly eat . Keeping my belly full kept the nausea away most