Taking care of our 3 year old, pregnant, sick.

My husband left for work at 6am, got home at 7:30pm. He didn’t even see our son once today, due to his sleep schedule. And my husband doesn’t think anything of it, didn’t say thank you.(he knows I’ve been sick)
My husband works late nights a couple times a week. He works 7 days in a row. I felt so exhausted tonight I was throwing up - bad nausea from pregnancy but usually not vomiting. I have a horrible head cold, congestion, headaches. I just feel bone tired. I don’t want to take Tylenol because it’s not recommended during pregnancy. My husband said he took a nap at work today since he was tired. Haha I just felt so unappreciated and realized we live two different lives. Our son never naps anymore so no naps for me. Just annoyed and wanted to vent

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Sorry you are going through this. But FYI Tylenol is fine to take during pregnancy. Especially if you have a fever.

Hope you feel better soon. Tylenol is fine during pregnancy. It was linked to negative effects when the pregnant mother took more than the recommended dose in a 24 hour period.

Tylenol is perfectly fine during pregnancy. If you’re pain then take it. I also like taking the Tylenol pm because it helps me sleep it’s amazing

You could try to still do quiet time with your toddler. Instead of nap do quiet time in their room. Put on the tv. Idk how many weeks you are but when I was in my first trimester with my third tv was on all the time because I was so tired and couldn’t do anything so sitting with the toddlers was the best thing I could do.

Im so sorry. Being pregnant and caring for toddler is really rough, especially solo parenting. Im currently surviving by putting the TV on for an hour a day in my room to keep my 3yo engaged while i nap. I feel mom guilt about it but this shit is rough and we deserve a break!

Take the Tylenol. Our government is just fear mongering.

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