So tired....

I find it interesting that while I couldn't sleep while pregnant with Chloe, its for different reasons then while pregnant with Josiah. With Chloe I really deal with restless leg syndrome a lot! So much so that I would spend much of the night standing in front of the tv marching in place. Just to get my legs to settle down. Sometimes I would walk around the front room hoping that would help alleviate the antsy-ness going on in my legs. I wouldn't go to bed till about 1am almost every night. It didn't matter if I had caffeine or not. If I had taken a nap or not. If I had gone walking or done light exercise or not. I had to deal with RLS most of the time. This time around, the RLS is still present but not as bad! Instead I am dealing with a problem that I've had for awhile but has only gotten worse since this pregnancy. And I've probably dealt with it every now and again with the RLS. Dry, hot feet. Yeah I know doesn't sound that bad. Really it is! If it's too bad, it will make the RLS flare up. But for me, to have dry, hot feet is like nails on a chalk board. It's the most uncomfortable thing for me. I put lotion on my feet probably 3-4 times a night. Sometimes more depending on the night. I don't actually remember when it got bad for me. I just know that for about as long as I've been married, maybe longer, I have a thing of lotion by my side of the bed so that I can reach over in the middle of the night and put lotion on my feet. The problem is, that sometimes I will slather my feet in lotion and within 10 mins, sometimes less, sometimes more, my feet will once again be hot and dry. I sleep with a fan aimed at them every night. I sleep sometimes with only one blanket on me and sometimes with my feet outside of the blanket. All the while still putting on lotion 3-4 times a night. I've tried a countless number of different lotions. All promising that I will get that desired moisturized feeling that I've been wanting. And all have failed miserably at accomplishing. And I've done research online somewhat to see if someone else out there in the world understands what Im going through and knows what to do to fix it. And so far no. Dry feet yet. Hot feet yes. Dry hot feet, no. Not as a combination. I cant put my feet on ice till I go to bed. My feet cant get wet at all or I will have issues. I have tried aquaphor and eucerin and vaseline and so much more. Nothing works. And its frustrating. So now, if I go to bed early, 11pm, yes that's early for me, I end up tossing and turning till 2am when I usually finally go to sleep. The last week or so I've decided to stop fighting it and just stay up till 1am. Then I maybe toss and turn for about an hour and only apply lotion 2-3 times and then can finally fall asleep. Only to deal with it again in the morning when Jake gets up and gets ready for work. It's annoying. But I figure it's something I will be dealing with till we are done having babies and I can go and soend the time and money on trying to figure out how to deal with dry, hot feet, and the RLS.