Tired.

Mamas… what do you do when you’re tired? Tired of cooking, cleaning, taking care of kids, laundry, dishes, DINNER, taking care of a household shoot taking care of yourself.
I’m a ftm also sahm. I’m tired I want to run away. I feel like I have the whole world on my shoulders, the only true time I have to myself is at night then I’ll have to juggle going to bed at a decent time or stay up and regret it in the morning. I don’t like this feeling, HELP

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Something about a nice hot shower just seems to bring me to my senses or walking outside

I don’t know if I’ve felt that way exactly. But I find my doom scrolling essential. Like I need to do it each day to remain sane lol.

A bath while listening to music that calms you down. Taking a walk, night walks work for me more, it’s more quieter / fresh air. Journaling make a cup of tea or your favorite drink.

Do you have a partner? I would recommend communicating with them about how you feel. I did the same recently and it's really helped. Also embrace "good enough" parenting. Don't stress trying to make everything perfect. E.g house can stay a little messy, dinner can be bread and butter one night etc.
I also am finding ways to make my day a bit more sensory friendly. E.g music on in the background, a scented moisturiser for my hands, my favourite drink etc.
If you start to feel resentment towards your baby or you start to struggle to connect please speak to someone as that might be PPD.

I find getting up before everyone else and just sitting with a cup of coffee in silence watching the sunrise and remembering how lucky and grateful I am that I get to do all these things helps me in the mornings. Then at night when my daughters asleep I find myself looking at pictures of her and missing her which makes everything so worth while 💕

But during the chaos of the day it's HARD.

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What is this stage called?

I left him on that white baby pillow🤔 and went to clean my self up in the restroom once I returned 5 minutes later he was where I see him now, what is this stage? Ik he didn’t crawl backwards lol so what is it? I need help

High end of normal percentile

Hi all, I had a growth scan today and was told baby boy was in the high end of normal percentile for 36 weeks coming in at 7lbs7 already. It's freaked me out a bit although they are saying its just means he's a healthy size baby.
Just looking for people who have had similar experiences how was your outcome if you wouldn't mind sharing?

Thanks 😊

Struggling post c section

I had an emergency c section almost 6 weeks ago and I’m really mentally struggling with the whole thing. Physically I’m back to normal and feel okay but I can’t shake the awful feeling of knowing what it feels like to have people’s hands on ur insides, whilst you’re awake. My whole birth experience was really traumatic, before and after birth, I’m wondering if anyone else knows if it’s worth speaking to someone about it? It’s making me really miserable, of course I’m grateful it brought me my daughter and that it was the safest quickest way to get her out. But I’m still really mentally struggling with how it all went down. I was in hospital for a lot longer than I was supposed to be because of how my body reacted to the drugs and it really has just messed with my head. Am I being dramatic here or is this a real thing?

Gender of baby

Ok I’m getting paranoid now that they’ve got it wrong at the scan! We went to a private gender reveal scan that we could take our little boy to as we knew he’d love it. They said boy and showed this. To me it looks obviously like a boy but I’ve recently seen so many that look similar and ended up being a girl! The only reason I ask this is that I once saw a psychic who told me it would be a girl. (Obviously I know that doesn’t in any way mean it would be true 😂)
What do you think?

Movements

Has anyone had a change in movements at this stage? 36 weeks and the last couple of days instead of lots of wriggling around I’ve just been getting baby pushing out of my stomach if that makes sense?

I find it really hard to explain, but kind of pushing and creating lumps in my bump, but overall slower. I do think baby has changed position which could be why it feels different.

I will say I have been in for monitoring and everything seemed normal, I’m just finding the change really unsettling!

40weeks today

My bump is so so sensitive everything hurts to touch it 😭 just took some ibuprofen to help with the campy pain it's just constant no rhythm to it at all.
I just want this baby here now 😭