Exhausted?

[Music-mommy]

Anyone else exhausted? Oof, I'm at 6 weeks now, and just tired all the time, I feel good in the morning for about an hour, and the I'm pooped! It's hard to deal with my 3 year old because I don't have any energy.

Man I'm wishing I'd weaned her back at 18 months. I find the nursing really hard too.

[canadiangranola]

Right there with you. And DS still doesn't sleep through the night, and since I got pregnant, has been waking more than usual, and getting up earlier too...it's like he can sense that my energy is divided and he wants to get as much as he can before it's too late.

[NatureMama3]

oh yea! horribly! was that way with Noah too, except I wasn't nursing the twins then and they wouldn't go to sleep for ANYTHING! I'm SOOOO glad I can nurse Noah to sleep, even if it means he's hooked on for an hour and they hurt. At least he's sleeping!

I've ended up napping with him most every nap for over a week now. Didn't even do that when he was newborn!

[Music-mommy]

Do they ever sleep through the night? Maybe at 6 or 7? In my dreams! People have been asking me if she sleeps through the night since she was 3 months old, she's 3 now and I have never had her sleep through the night. The only people I can find whose kids sleep through the night are the ones who locked their kids in the bedroom at an early age. Though maybe it's a personality thing. My MIL thinks I'm nuts because dd still wakes up 3-5times/night. She thinks it's due to my permissiveness.

I'm wondrin' what it'll be like when I have a newborn and a toddler waking up at different times during the night. :

I'm sure I'll survive, actually this pregnancy thing is hard because you don't have control over your fatigue. At least when you have a newborn, you know it's just because you're not sleeping. When you're preg you can sleep 15 hours and still be tired.

[NatureMama3]

they do.. eventually! My 5 year olds (believe me, unfortunately, I didn't start out APing them so that is NOT the cause of your problems) started sleeping through the night this year.

But, they have ADHD so that complicated it all. I'm sure they would have sooner if not for that.

it's hard! I get so tired in pregnancy that if you feed me and put me in a car (passenger) I'm out within 5 minutes! :
When you have 2 waking, you do a divide-and-conquer type thing. DH takes the older (if nursing isn't needed that is), you the younger.

[AllyRae]

I think Dr. Sears calls it "bone chilling exhaustion"....that's what I have. Sometimes I feel like I could just pass out and sleep for hours...even 10 minutes after waking up!

[tsfairy]

Bone chilling exhaustion describes it well! I can just about make it to work in the morning before I'm ready for a nap, and then it's a struggle to stay awake the rest of the day, and I pass out almost as soon as I get home in the evenings. Poor DH barely sees me awake anymore!

I read somewhere that what our bodies go through in the first trimester is akin to climbing Mount Everest. It's no wonder we're so darn tired!

[NoraB]

I am so, so tired! It's making me crabby too and I find myself getting much more irritated at my 2.5 year old DD. To top it all off, she seems to be going through a high energy phase. Ugh!

I find that I'm happy I'm still nursing her though (despite the ocassionaly nipple discomfort) b/c it gives me down time.

[cj'smommy]

Me too! The frustrating part is that when I do go to bed, I can't sleep!! : It's crazy.

DH is gone on a business trip and won't be home for 2 weeks, I'm already beat and it's only Monday morning.

Connor was sleeping through the night (and no we didn't CIO with him, but he's not nursing now either) but the last couple weeks, since my DH's last 2 week trip in December, he's been getting up 3 or 4 times. DH and I tag team getting up with him, or DH just lets me sleep but now that he's gone I don't know how I'm going to do it. I can nap when C does, but by the time I fall asleep he's waking up.

[marieangela]

Definitely exhausted. Especially today. Up half the night with ds last night. I'm not sure what the problem was. He has actually been pretty good with sleeping throught the night (no, I never left him to cry!) for a while, but not so lately. I try to take a nap for at least part of his nap, but when I work I don't get the chance. I can barely keep my eyes open today.