I feel like such a bad mum lately š¢
I am 12 weeks pregnant with baby number 2 and I am absolutely exhausted all day everyday
I have no energy to look after my 16 month old, im constantly having to say no to getting up and playing with her as I feel sick and just want to lay down on the sofa.
Ive recently only started to get help from my MIL after having a conversation with her about not helping. My daughter goes to nursery 1 day a week for 3 hours which is good for her.
I just want to cry everyday and have this pregnancy be over already as ive had enough.
I dont get out the house much as there isnt anything in my area to do and publis transport is unreliable
My partner works long hours so hes gone from 6am til 7pm almost everyday.
Also our daughter now sleeps in our bed and doesnt go to sleep til we do as she hates her cot and cries if you try to put her in there at night so I dont get a break from her all day and evening.
I just dont know what to do anymore
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Donāt feel bad!! Your 16 month old wonāt remember the days you couldnāt get up and play because you are pregnant and feeling unwell. Donāt be so hard on yourself. Iām almost 18 weeks pregnant now and Iāve only just come out the other side of the first trimester and it was absolutely disgusting, I also have a 14 month old and honestly as long as he was fed and cared for I just lay on the sofa and let him play or let him watch the tv so I could chill. Spent my days looking forward to his bed time! I felt bad too but we are back to our normal routine now and he absolutely does not remember the days that I felt like shit lol xx

The tiredness will pass! The first 15 weeks was the worst for tiredness and then energy comes back. Youāre not a bad mum youāre growing their new sibling ā¤ļø Any way, any mum that doubts their parenting are always the best mums as always want to be the best. Keep going and give yourself a break x
My husband works nights and sometimes heās gone all day and all night so itās just me and my eight month old. No one comes to visit even though his family lives close by and Iām just exhausted. He doesnāt sleep well overnight so Iām just constantly sleep deprived and now he is crawling and constantly just wants to get into everything that he shouldnāt have quite literally anything a fan and end table the dog bowls so if I put him in his playpen, I feel bad heās in the playpen for too long, but then I let him out and heās constantly just going for every single thing he shouldnāt have
I guess Iām just curious what everyone does when theyāre by themselves with their baby lately. I feel like Iām just getting depressed and Iām not cut out for this. Iām constantly just stressed and tired and also feel guilty that I get frustrated because heās just a baby heās also constantly pulling and wanting to stand on me and pinching me all of the time Iām touched out by the end of the day.
And to make it worse by two dogs who I loved very very much as soon as he was born I just canāt stand them the barking the getting in the way itās all just getting to be too much and I know I should be grateful for everything I have, but exhausted
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My husband and I got married 5 days ago. We have been together for almost 5 years and have an 18 month old. 3 days ago he went through my phone and saw texts from the first year of our relationship with my ex. I continued communication with him and met up with him for drinks one night. Nothing happened between us. I cut communication off that same year. My now husband wants nothing to do with me. Iām absolutely gutted that a younger immature version of myself has ruined my marriage 3 days in. I donāt know what to do.
I love my husband and my family and I will do absolutely anything to save us. My husband had already said he wants nothing to do with me and doesnāt see this relationship worth saving because of it. I have no one to talk to about this because Iām embarrassed that we just had everyone together to celebrate our marriage and now less than a week later Iām talking about the end of it.
My behavior back then did not carry over into my relationship further. I said goodbye to my past and went into a beautiful relationship of learning, growth and love with my now husband. How do I come back from this especially for our daughter? she doesnāt deserve this, she doesnāt deserve to see me crying everyday and her dad absent in another room. The 3 of us were so close, did everything together now he canāt even look at me. Iām sick.
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We were supposed to be going to my nanās today for her birthday.
My sister messaged this morning to say her kid was a bit poorly when they woke up this morning so we decided not to go.
Reason being, we donāt like putting our daughter in front of illnesses knowingly because she suffers enough with what she catches from nursery (sheās 25 months). This week all week Iāve avoided going into the office knowing a colleague of mine has been ill. Also
this month we lost over Ā£200 in our pay from unpaid time off because our kid couldnāt go to nursery so we had to stay home with her (who was made sick by their kid because they lied to us and said she didnāt have anything wrong when she had a stomach bug). Our family donāt help us out, not even with babysitting.
Our family are now treating us like the bad guys because we refused to go. They changed their minds about them being poorly after giving their kid medicine which was also after we said we werenāt going.
Were we in the wrong to protect our child and our finances? Weāre really struggling because of losing that money in this months pay and I have a car MOT coming soon where Iāve already had to forego the servicing because we canāt afford it. Weāve taken loads of hits in pay that we just canāt afford to do anymore. But also my depression and anxiety have really taken a toll this week so Iām on heightened alert for anything or anyone making my child sick.
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Girl moms, at what age did you start potty training?

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I feel like such a bad mum lately š¢
I am 12 weeks pregnant with baby number 2 and I am absolutely exhausted all day everyday
I have no energy to look after my 16 month old, im constantly having to say no to getting up and playing with her as I feel sick and just want to lay down on the sofa.
Ive recently only started to get help from my MIL after having a conversation with her about not helping. My daughter goes to nursery 1 day a week for 3 hours which is good for her.
I just want to cry everyday and have this pregnancy be over already as ive had enough.
I dont get out the house much as there isnt anything in my area to do and publis transport is unreliable
My partner works long hours so hes gone from 6am til 7pm almost everyday.
Also our daughter now sleeps in our bed and doesnt go to sleep til we do as she hates her cot and cries if you try to put her in there at night so I dont get a break from her all day and evening.
I just dont know what to do anymore
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Is it just me being silly or is this ridiculous, basically my boyfriend has always gone out with his mates on a night out dead early and I mean EARLY Iām talking like 2pm/3pm until the early hours of 3am and I had this argument with him that we have an almost four month old baby girl and that he should start thinking that itās a ridiculous time to go out and he agrees itās long but his mates have always liked doing that. This by all means doesnāt mean I have a problem with him seeing his mates or going out but when you have a baby whoās still tiny doesnāt it just seem absolutely absurd??? Like when can I ever do that?? I donāt do at all, Iām probably being stupid but itās just bothering me as heās out now and Iām at home with our baby.
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