to feel annoyance when my childless colleagues keep saying how tired they are?

[sandyballs]

They don't know the meaning of the word

Since when did tiredness become a bloody competition? DD slept through from 4 months, so having a child doesn’t automatically mean you will be sleep deprived. A colleague of mine suffers from insomnia and has done for years. If we were playing sleep deprived bingo, she would definitely win.

I mean, not that much has changed.

Thankfully views have changed in the last 15 years since this nasty thread was started.

LOL I think you’re being provocative on purpose, but for the record yabu.

Parents don’t have a monopoly on tiredness, I know plenty of childfree people with insomnia and/ or incredibly busy and exhausting schedules.

On the fence here, I have never been as tired in my life as when I was bringing two DC up on my own and working full time. They’ve long flown the next but I’m still knackered, menopausal with elderlies to run around after, manage their houses, their admin, their endless medical appointments, their entertainment whilst still working 24 hours (a week, it a day lol).

not having young children doesn’t mean you can’t be knackered, but I do agree some people haven’t got a clue.

I have two young kids myself so dont get me wrong, but people who dont have kids could have a hundred reasons why they feel tired, insomnia, iron deficiency, auto immune conditions, depression. It isnt exclusively parents that get very tired.

The most tired I've ever been was pre dc working three jobs.

They don't know the meaning of the word

really, having an autoimmune disease and for three years it was undiagnosed, it was far worse than the sleepless nights I had with children. I was going to bed at 8pm and sleeping until 6am but still tired though the day, it was winter and I was stressed, had a lot going on so put it down to that. Eventually I felt so ill I went to the doctors and they admitted me straight to hospital and told me I was very lucky id gone when I did as it could have been extremely if id not

Please don't ignore or belittle peoples cries of feeling of tierdness , you don't know how they are feeling and could be ill.

So if you don’t have children you’re not entitled to be tired? how do you know what she needs to do after work or if she suffers from anything?? stupid post

Ha ha ha that is one 🧟‍♀️

My child always slept through he was an angel baby I wasn't sleep deprived.I'm definitely more tired now and he's grown up. I'm actually EXHAUSTED today I could fall asleep right now.

YET ANOTHER ZOMBIE THREAD FROM 2007

Many moons ago a colleague always used to tell me that her kittens were just like having a newborn. No. It really really isn't.

Ffs!!!

Definitely. I'm glad I wasn't on here in 2007. That was the year that my abusive husband decided to wake me up every time I went to sleep by kicking me or hitting me over the head. After a few months of that he got bored and decided that he'd rather disappear and come back days later. I should have been able to sleep in peace those nights, but I never knew when he was coming home or what he would do if he found me asleep, so I couldn't.

Have been an insomniac since.

I have no children and never will - but by god no parent can ever understand my tiredness then.

Urgent help. From mumsnetters. 😂😂😂

And do you moan about all the posters posting random threads on here each day as they’re also stopping others posters getting urgent help? What a load of crap. 😂😂😂

I mean people without kids can be tired too. Self inflicted maybe but you can say that about choosing to have children too.

I’m often knackered. A high stress 40 hour working week plus overtime and commute. I didn’t choose to have children but I chose to have horses which means I’m out the house 5am-8pm most days. I’m also insomniac and frequently don’t get much sleep.

So you bet I’m tired!

for gods sake I didn’t realise this was an old thread!

I recall thinking i was tired before kids.
i now know the difference between that and enduring demands etc and lack of sleep. Thing is they dont know any difference and its not their fault you had kids 😊

Kindly, get over yourself. You have no idea what other people have going on in their lives? You can feel tiredness without having children. Childless people are constantly told they don't know the meaning of various words, love, tired etc it's actually boring

Me neither didn't realise it was from 2007 😂😂

OP you said:

God they're doing it again, yawning and stretching, going on about their late nights down the pub. I've decided it's jealousy, even though I've been there and done that before kids and I wouldn't change my life now.

If you've done the partying yourself, can you swear you never ever said you were tired in front of colleagues with children?

Eventually it will be them up with colicky DCs making the same complaint about the next generation.

YET ANOTHER ZOMBIE THREAD FROM 2007

Oh bother.