Terrible twos?
I am one exhausted mama!
28 weeks pregnant with number 2, working full time, had a recent bereavement, multiple episodes of generic sickness like colds bugs and dealing with a 26 month old toddler from hell right. Well not really but he is challenging.
He’s never been a great sleeper but we had a stint of sleeping from 7.00-6/6.30ish. The last couple of months he’s gone back to waking up at 5.30 and the last week or so it’s multiple times a night last night he woke up SCREAMING 4/5 times.
When he does wake up and we try to settle him he has become obsessed with twiddling my nipples, and gets really wound up if he can’t get to them.
Unfortunately my husband doesn’t help with the 5.30 wake as he always says ‘shall we go downstairs?’ Rather than persevering despite me saying multiple times don’t mention downstairs, he needs to sleep because he is tired. He then gets annoyed and says well you deal with him then. He leaves for work at about 6.30 so doesn’t see the effect the early wake ups are having.
Our little one is knackered so then as well as normal tantrums we are having extreme ones over everything and anything which is testing my patience because I’m exhausted.
He is also lovely, like right now he is cuddled up to me and keeps kissing me then I feel even more guilty at being overwhelmed.
He still has a nap during the day, we’ve had occasions where he has missed the daytime nap and bedtime and night sleep is worse so he isn’t ready to drop it.
As well as sleep he’s decided he doesn’t want to eat anything hardly. After being fine with trying and eating all foods he’s decided he hates most things now and won’t try new food.
He will eat berries, peas, pasta and cheese sometimes but mostly will only eat sausage, mash and beans.
He likes eating fruit pouches and snacks but I try to limit them because they aren’t good for him.
That’s stressing me out because sausages aren’t good for him but he won’t eat anything else so it’s either that or nothing (he won’t go back to other food and would just not eat)
I just feel like I’m failing him and although I love him more than anything, I find myself snapping more, constantly arguing with the husband and I’m just wondering how I will cope with another and doubting my capabilities.
I think this is just a bit of a rant and getting stuff off my chest and I want to see if anyone else is in the same boat because I’m struggling right now. 😔
How’s his speech? My little boy was having like 5-6 mega tantrums a day until he could speak better then all of a sudden he calmed down quite a lot! In terms of food, you can only offer you can’t force. My little boy is fussy too - pasta (so I have to blend veg into sauce) fruit, carrots, fish fingers, chips, beans, cereal, yoghurt and toast - that’s pretty much it - other than biscuits and crisps which he’d devour at any opportunity. It’s normal, you can’t do more than offer, you can’t force feed - especially pregnant too. Don’t put so much pressure on yourself - reading and seeing on social media what mums feed there kids sometimes really gets me down, and my mum always said ‘gosh I’m so glad I couldn’t compare like that back when you were little’ 😂