Hello. My daughter is 17 months. Since she started rolling over (4-5 months) she has never stopped moving. She tried so hard to move and roll over, she dislocated her elbow when she was a baby. I left her for a second to open the door to receive a parcel and found her with dislocated elbow. She walked when she was 10 months. She's so active, it's dreadful. I work full time and my partner also does. No childcare at all. Just swapping. When I go home he goes to work. I work 6am-2pm and he works 2pm-10pm. That means I work 8 hours and I look after her for 8 hours. She's always been fighting sleep. It takes around 2 hours to fall asleep with meltdowns and tears. We're co-sleeping since she was 6 months old. We tried every way possible let her fall asleep in her cot but she'd cry until her lips turned blue and she chocked and vomited from crying so we gave up. We never ever have time to just sit down a have a coffee. She'll never sit in her pram or high chair. We always have to rush to eat and go home. We can't even go food shopping. She's constantly running and destroying things, falling on the floor and cry if we try to pick her up or stop her. It's completely impossible for me to imagine that anyone can look after her if we send her to nursery. Especially when they have other children to look after as well. I really feel so tired and hopeless. We go out on weekends and I see hundreds of babies/toddlers in their pram sitting and chilling/playing with a toy and I'm wondering what we've done wrong.
Any other mum with a toddler like this to give me some courage? xx