The hardest day for me as a mom

My toddler is 22 months old, and I am currently 23 weeks pregnant. She has multiple tantrums throughout the day. She screams and cries so intensely that her nose sometimes starts bleeding. During these episodes, she hits us, pulls our hair, scratches, and even tries to grab our eyes. We have scratches all over our bodies. She even hit my husband in the nose with a full glass bottle of milk and left him bruised.

Sometimes I am alone with her all day, and we don’t have any help. She is not in daycare. It’s becoming very hard for me to control my emotions, and I find myself overreacting, especially since this pregnancy has been more difficult.

I just want to know if this is normal behavior for a toddler her age, or if we should take her to a pediatrician. We really don’t know what to do anymore. I feel desperate. On top of everything, she is also very dependent on her pacifier and uses it almost 24/7.

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Hi Marina, I’m so sorry you’re going through this. I wish I had more concrete advice, but some questions that came up as I was reading:
-Does she eat foods that contain any dyes in them?
-Maybe research a parasite cleanse? There are holistic doctors/herbalists that could help guide those
Sending you so much love. ❤️

I relate to a lot of this, I’ve been struggling a lot with my 22 month old here lately and am currently 22 weeks pregnant which makes it all a lot harder to deal with. She’s just started refusing naps, so she’ll start off the day a perfect sweetheart but on the days she refuses to nap (which is about half the time) she is an absolute terror by 3pm until bedtime. She throws huge tantrums anytime she’s told no, calls people mean and says to go away, will push people away or throw herself back (sometimes hurting herself in the process). She hurts us fairly regularly too. Usually it’s accidental just from playing too rough or getting carried away, but every once in a while it will feel more intentional. Like when im trying to lay down with her to get her to nap she will kick me in the head while she’s throwing her fit. We started doing time-outs in her pack n play, I’ll sit outside of it and talk to her calmly or offer her water, but explain why her behavior is not nice and that

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