He’s pure hard work in every sense of the word.
I know I will get flamed because everyone will say BUt THESe arE NOrmaL TOdDLEr THInGS but, he takes it to an extreme.
Doesn’t sleep well, doesn’t eat well and is pure chaos with no sense of danger. He is extremely stroppy and will purposely do things to get told “no” i.e putting small things in his mouth or standing and running along sofas/beds. He spends so much time crying and he is really impatient with everything, will cry if I leave the room and will cry for 30 odd minutes before every sleep. He hates being in the buggy or carseat too long and will cry but if I let him out to run and play he will bolt or fall over constantly and get hurt, he wont hold my hand and when I pick him up and try and get him back in the buggy he will go rigid and scream.
I can’t get showered or dressed in the morning unless he is asleep because you have to watch him non stop or he will throw himself off my bed or try and eat a plug.
Sit him up to eat and 9 times out of 10 he will swipe the entire lot onto the floor and end up only eating a yoghurt.
With sleep he really fights it. We put him to bed at 7 and he will wake at either 11 or 4, sometimes both and wont go down again without milk. Sometimes he is up for the day at 4, latest is usually 6. He is tired again by 9 and ends upsleeping for 2h and then not wanting an afternoon nap which means overtired by bedtime. If we wake him after 1h he mostly still wont have an afternoon nap.
He spends 2d at nursery and he completely refuses all sleep there so he is a nightmare on those two evenings.
I am just at a complete loss. I hate my life at the moment, it is such a slog. I just wish he would let up on something. Aibu to feel this way?
n.b he is my second, his brother was an angel in comparison.