I don't know if I'm being unrealistic but we are at our wits end.
This year it's felt like one thing after another parenting wise. We expected our 1 year old to come home from nursery with illnesses in January and February. This was hindered by her stopping sleeping and being sick due to her cough... in her bed, in our bed, anytime anywhere and especially each and every time we attempted to drive anywhere.
She then suffered a bad injury at nursery which saw us in/out of GP and A&E for 2 weeks followed by 3 booked hospital appointments and no sleep for that time.
Sleep has been awful all year in fact, throw in hand foot and mouth, chickenpox, and now we all have Covid and I'm in my 3rd trimester so it's quite worrying.
We've cancelled just about every plan we've had from weddings, milestone birthdays, even a staycation we booked.
We've been in the thick of it for almost 6 months and wondering if this is normal or bad luck. We were supposed to going to a cooking day this weekend to celebrate our anniversary and had childcare lined up but have had to cancel it and not sure if we can rebook in time before baby arrives, and it expires. £250 down the drain along with the rest.
It wasn't always like this, of course newborn life was but this time last year we had an 8 month old, who slept through the night mostly, was not at nursery, no illness, no injury, I was on maternity leave. It was amazing!
Wondering if with two I should just buckle in and accept life is like this now or if this is a bad run?
Feeling fed up and unwell and pregnant and not sure if I'm being unreasonable. I'd just like to make one plan I've made this summer.. I don't get out much at it is. All we do is work full time in survival mode and feel I'm doing a rubbish job at work for that matter too.