Insomnia...

As if it won't be bad enough once the babies are actually here, the insomnia has kicked in already.
Actually, it's as much the waking up in the night and being unable to get back to sleep, which would be a lot easier without a snoring husband (to be fair this isn't every night, he must be a bit congested) and children who think that if they wake in the night the best solution is to head for mummy and daddy's bed and insinuate themselves in.
Some mornings, when we wake there are five (well, seven!) of us in there.
Generally we can rely on Sam to sleep all night in his own bed, Josiah manages about four nights in seven, often creeping in around 6am.
Ben on the other hand joins us at some point in pretty much every night. I know I need to deal with this - in a maximum of about 9 weeks there'll be two actual, living, breathing babies in there with us but at the moment I'm just too tired, so if I notice him I roll over and try to go back to
sleep.
Last night/ this morning I woke at around 4am, someone was kicking me in the bladder! There wasn't actually space to sit up in bed, or roll over because J was taking slightly more than half the bed and Ben was lying between us on top of the duvet.
I used the loo, and went back to bed, but the position I had been in was no longer comfortable,, there wasn't enough duvet to properly cover me and after about 5 minutes I gave up and got up to lie on the sofa and watch TV.
There's not a lot on at 4am and I found myself watching "Baby Story" episodes on Discovery Home and Health.
There's no doubt in my mind - though I could be wrong - that birth is a very different thing in the US and the UK.
Most US births seem much more medicalised, they seem to move much sooner toward intervention once a woman is in labour and there appears to be a greater inclination to induce babies once the 37 week mark has passed.
Comparing that with the experience of friends and fellow forum members in the UK is interesting, on this side of the pond, women tend to be begging not to be induced before at least 42 weeks (even when they are fed up of late pregnancy and desperate to meet their babies) unless there is a clinical reason to do otherwise, opting instead to be monitored daily to ensure that all is still well with baby and placenta.
I wonder what causes the difference in expectation. Prenatal education I assume - following different strands of research to reach differing conclusions.
I had the last class of my "Relaxation Course" yesterday. There are a lot of expectations there too. If the midwife had looked at me one more time as she said "Of course some of you may well have a caesarian", or "if you have an epidural"I might have had to hit her, or at least respond LOL, as it is I just practiced my relaxation breathing....