I feel sleepy at any time of the day during pregnancy. If Justin wakes up more than 3 times at night, I can’t get up from my bed in the morning. Feel like sleeping thru the day and skip work, but cannot do that.

Why so sleepy? Because I stop taking Nescafe, my regular cup every morning. My ex-colleagues say Nescafe is drug to me, and I’m so addicted to it, they never see me not drinking one during tea break when I was working as an engineer. I remember that there was a period of time when the can Nescafe is out of stock from koperasi, and I was walking in the factory like a zombie. Couldn’t concentrate on my work, just too drowsy, and day-dreaming only.

Since I’m expecting again, I stopped taking coffee. That’s why I’m a walking zombie again. Even if I don’t sleep well, but after taking coffee, I’ll be energetic the whole day long. I’m too addicted to it!

What to do? I got this habit from my dad’s side of family. When I was young, we stayed together with my grandparents in Tanjung Tokong. There’re 2 kettles in the kitchen, one was boiled water, while the other was kopi-O. I started taking kopi-O since young. Everyone’s drinking it like water, so I just followed. My mom was against it, and when we moved out from there, she stopped me from taking coffee. But during my uni years, I took coffee again because you know lah, college students, like to sleep late, lepak at mamak stall, do anything but going to sleep early. How to get up for class looking alert? Get coffee!

I was at my peak those days when I took at least 4 cups of coffee per day, especially during exam seasons. I dared not go into the exam hall without taking a cup first, worried that I’d get sleepy and couldn’t think of the answers. Gosh, I took a long time before cutting it down to a cup per day, and it’s hard. I think it’s almost the same as people quit smoking, killing a bad habit is extremely hard. But I managed to cut down after some time as I know it’s very unhealthy to overtake caffeine.

Of coz, I still curi-curi taking coffee once in a while during pregnancy. It’s hard to quit totally as sometimes I really need it to boast myself up. Is there any alternative to stay alert whole day long? Don’t tell me to sleep more, it’s impossible at the moment.

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