Difficult toddler and 9 weeks pregnant

[Dolfinmum]

I am 9 weeks pregant with my second child, and as well as feeling sick and tired all the time I am trying to cope with an increasingly difficult 20 month old. My son seems to have changed over the last few weeks from a happy and fun little boy into a very whingy and clingy boy. He cries if anything, however small, doesn't go his way, and he screams if I try to have a shower or do something that doesnt involve him. I am already feeling guilty as I know I'm not being as good a mum as I was before I got pregant, or as good as I'd like to do, but I'm doing the best I can in the circumstances. Is this just a stage? Or is he behaving this way because his mum's not being herself? Anyone experience similar and have something encouraging to help?

Get out to toddler groups and the park and other places as much as possible, they need to get out a lot at this age and it comes on suddenly (the change from happy at home to needing to be out, I mean).

My Ds was very similar and we had to get out of the house. It's really tough, especially whilst pregnant but I've found it's less exhausting being out than dealing with boredom tantrums and bad beh at home!

He goes to nursery a couple of mornings a week even though I am now on mat leave, so he can burn off energy and I get a sleep!