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bored and frustrated and not coping!!!

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happynappies · 15/03/2010 16:26

I've got a very 'spirited' dd who is 3, and a 12 month old ds, and am 14 wks pg with #3. I'm unfeasibly tired, and get so frustrated with dd it is untrue. She is so wilful, everything I say to her is met with "No!" and despite going on positive parenting course run by hv and trying as many positive interventions as I can with quiet time and time out as a last resort, I still feel like a horrible shouty Mum most of the time, and have days when I really lose it and become quite hysterical, sobbing etc. Each day feels like a mountain to climb, and also that I'm just seeing out the time, waiting until the end of the day for the children to go to bed. I don't enjoy any of it, and in truth am bored as well as tired. I'm wondering what on earth I've let myself in for having a third! I do work - one day a week - and although I enjoy having some time away from the dcs don't enjoy my work and find it stressful and exhausting even though it is just one day a week. I've seen a counsellor about PND, and accept now that I'm just pregnant and subject to hormones and exhaustion, and am just trying the best I can... does it ever look any better though?!

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Hildabeast · 15/03/2010 17:11

Yes, I know this feeling and I dont have a third to cope with. Really though, you know the definition of a bore is someone who never imagines they are one, well the same is true for 'horrible shouty mum' I bet nobody else would think you were. The worst shouters always think it is completely necessary. Not much help I know but yes, it does get better.

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