10 weeks into adopting my 22 month old dd.
Finding it very difficult today. I struggled bonding initially but today it's all come rushing back, I thought I was getting the hang of it but today has been really difficult. She's been great but won't sit still for 2 mins and I'm exhausted. My db had been ill for weeks so I've had no let up from it. I have a 6yr old birth dd and had forgotten just how intense toddlers are. Especially ones who are settling into a new environment with new people. I'm trying really hard to see it from her perspective but she's into screaming all the time at the moment and I'm at my wits end. I know this is normal toddler behaviour, but added to me being knackered and I'm also struggling to bond I just want to curl into a ball and sleep for a month. I look at her and she's gorgeous and a real character but I'm just not getting that maternal feeling towards her. I desperately don't want this to go pear shaped for all our sakes but I'm having mega doubts and the 'fake it till you make it' moto just isn't cutting it at the mo!
Sorry don't really know what I'm asking, just need to blurt it out somewhere 