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2nd child guilt

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Royyyy · 25/08/2024 22:31

I’ve found it so hard and I am so lucky and blessed despite it being so difficult I wouldn’t change a thing but I’ve just found having 2 very young kids so hard 😭 each day I try to juggle both and then just feel like I’m not giving one enough attention then the other

I feel like a shit mum always so anxious and worried and just never relaxed

im so sleep deprived too my youngest has been waking hourly for the past 5 months (she’s 7mo now)

I have so much guilt I’ve been a bit depressed it’s better now but at the start I just feel like I was getting through the day. I chose to breastfeed but was self conscious so hated going out Doing it. She cried so much my partner played a video earlier of our eldest playing and chatting and in the back you can hear our (then) newborn screaming and it was like a bad flashback

i I don’t have this big fondness about the start of her life

i feel so much guilt. She is so lovely too she is so smiley and lovely🩷 I am so blessed with both my amazing kids

just so guilty that I return to work in a few months and this time has gone quick and I spent so much of it so down and alone

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Namechangedforthis25 · 25/08/2024 22:38

Also a mum to two young kids

I think you are just nackered and ready for some time to yourself -

having two young kids is tiring - you are doing a great job and can only do your best

Royyyy · 25/08/2024 23:50

Namechangedforthis25 · 25/08/2024 22:38

Also a mum to two young kids

I think you are just nackered and ready for some time to yourself -

having two young kids is tiring - you are doing a great job and can only do your best

Thank you I just worry could I do better constantly. The guilt weighs on me all the time and my youngest is going through an anti anyone else phase

seriously if i hand her to someone she sobs until I take her back and then is instantly fine so it’s good she’s so settled with me but it means time with my eldest is always having her there we’re not having 1-2-1 snippets and I feel guilt for jt

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