Many people seem to be doing a spectacular job at parenting so I sometimes wonder if I got it all wrong. I am a parent to 2.5 yo DS and currently pregnant nearly in third trimester. I work 4 days a week and then he is in nursery and we are home on Friday.
I have started to dread my Fridays off now. I feel utterly exhausted as my son is awake between 5-6 am, he is becoming more stubborn and resists his naptime. DH is very adamant that he shouldn't be watching TV so it mostly falls on me to keep him entertained. I am feeling increasingly exhausted and 16 hours long days are taking a toll on me.
DH doesn't seems to understand my exhaustion due to pregnancy as well as me feeling more emotional and irritable than usual. We have very different views on parenting and we tend to argue a lot and my resentment seems to be building up because of constant early days. DH does night wakings and DS keeps waking up 2-3 time a night hence I am the one who gets up when DS is finally awake in the morning. I feel like I am at a breaking point now and I need to learn new parenting techniques as DS doesn't seems to listen to most things I say and DH keeps blaming me that my parenting style is too permissive that he never seems to listen to me but I think he's still too young and he will listen to me once he's bit older.
Any advice on my situation is gracefully accepted. Thank you.