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Please help, terrible parent

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tellmesomethingreal · 14/06/2020 18:30

Hey

I'm very pregnant, 39 weeks and having a terrible pregnancy. Anything that could go wrong has including breaking a bone, spd, sciatica, hospital stays, migraines etc.

We have a 3 year old and I am being a terrible parent. Tv is on all day long, tablet is given whenever she asks for it, I'm sat on my phone a lot, she's eating ok but I wouldn't win any culinary awards and crisps and biscuits gesture way too heavily.

My husband is working from home and doing absolutely everything. He's cleaning and looking after me and cooking where possible (or ordering food more likely as there is just no time) and he tries to play with her and take her for walks every day and do fun things where possible but the guilt is killing me. He does bath and bed and she loves him so much but seems to hate me which makes sense.

I just can't move, I can't sit on the floor for more than a minute or two, I am not sleeping due to pain so am grumpy and miserable and so low. I feel like she is suffering massively and I hate myself for being such a terrible parent. Before this she was at nursery and with other children and doing fun things and I was in a fit state to take her swimming or soft play or park but now obv everything is closed and she's just so bored and fed up.

I guess I'm just writing for some reassurance that I don't ruin or scar her forever but the guilt makes me worry that I've done too much damage

OP posts:
MrsBudd · 14/06/2020 18:33

No advice but just came to say I'm in a very similar position. I'm just telling myself it's only for a short time and things will get better! 😬

octobersky19 · 14/06/2020 18:36

You're doing the best you can, you aren't a terrible parent. Keep going, you're doing great x

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