So how knackered and hormonally weird does feeding an 11 month old normally make one feel? or do I really have PND

[MrsJohnCusack]

That's it really. Sleep has been a bit pants but I moved out of the bedroom and onto the sofa about 2 weeks ago (DS's room isn't ready yet, needs some work before he can go into it - hmm, must get on with that) and he is sleeping better now. occasionally I have to go in and feed him maybe once - and now he is suddenly cutting 3 molars which isn't halping. BUt anyway, I am not as knackered as I have been

but I am just a dried out old husk really. I am knackered, grumpy, shouty, dizzy a lot of the time, feel like my eyes are going to spontaneously close in the early afternoon, tearful, miserable, finding it hard to switch off and go to sleep etc. etc.

I had a load of blood tests - iron, thyroid, liver, blood sugar etc - which are apparently all fine (couldn't believe it, even my iron stores which were comically low when I was pregnant). I cried and cried when I heard this, I really thought there must be someething actually wrong that we could sort out

So, the doctor will want to discuss PND< which I had first time round. but I'm not sure that I'd be feeling miserable if I wasn't so knackered TBH so i'm quite reluctant to diagnose that.

Finally, round to the point - am feeding DS 4 times a day and sometimes in the night, he also eats enough solids to sink a battelship (yet has dropped from above the 98th centile at birth to under the 50th - still off the scale for length though, and is very active crawling etc.). I won't be giving up, but DH wondered if that was adding to the general knackerdom and stress. Periods came back 2 and a half months ago as well. Also, having dropped all the pregnancy weight and more easily within a few months, now I'm back to my usual overweight and CANNOT shift any more despite really not eating that much and going through days where I don't have much appetite

If you read all that (really long, sorry, but quite cathartic), could the breastfeeding be contributing? As I say, I won't be giving up, but it would be nice to know

and thank you for posting on my sad little thread

I have absolutely no advice, but I just wanted to say that I looked at your pics and your babies are so gorgeous. and you have good taste in music too
so hey, it can't be that bad lol

before you go lavishing your attentions on Alistair, do have a read of this www.mumsnet.com/Talk/138/450646?stamp=080210212142
we are not fit people on that thread, but i'm really enjoying it.

plus, PLUS! you start 'exercising' the minute you set foot on the pavement and are home and hosed in 30 mins. i've really discovered it's not the exercise that bothers me, it's the faffola of getting there, getting changed, getting back, BLAH BLAH BLAH. this is easy by comparison.

and you have a 43-year-old californian named Rawb in your ear to encourage you. he shits on Alistair, i'm telling you. and he's free, the big blousy man-tart.

Hugs MrsJC

I only have 1 dd, so I have no idea how people cope with 2 or more. Kudos to you for having 2 amazing sprogs.

I think it's very sad it's called PN Depression, when in most cases woman don't feel particularly depressed. I have PND or as my HV calls it PN Stress. I didn't want to go down the drugs line, so I have councelling sessions and they also look after my dd now and then so I can have a couple of hours gult free me time.

I agree with most of the above posts, I think lack of sleep really gets to you long term.

I'm pretty sure my dd (10 months) will sleep through before she's 10

and fingerwoman, MrsJC is also deeply, tremendously gorgeous. worryingly so, seeing as she's giving herself such a kicking on here. we can all lose weight, MrsJC, but we are not all blessed with with being pretty, you lucky twit.

and I am also noting down Isolda for any future daughters I may have

thank you!

oooh gawd more posts

Aitch, I select my photos very carefully AND ensure that I am on the other side of the world and therefore will Never Be Seen. but it is very kind of you

i have just had a weekend away with just DS and although it was a bit knackering, it was lovely going away AND I spent loads of cash on nice new clothes for me which was marvellous

and hello sushipaws. at least at 10/11 months they are gorgeous, even if we see slightly more of them than we'd like

yes, well... think on. as my dear old grandma used to say.

am off to Purchase Bras now - thrilling
Aitch I will look at the thread...

i've seen the ones of FB. you're lovely. and yes, you'll feel even lovelier if you're feeling more trim and well in yourself. so i expect to see you on that running thread. seriously, it's FUN.

get a shock absorber.

Hello, gorgeous MrsJC.

I'm sorry you're feeling pants.

I think prolonged sleep deprivation is hideous torture. At its worst, I feel like my brain's folding in on itself in the middle of my head and my eyes are in the opposite sockets.

I have utmost sympathy and empathy and I am LOLing at big blousy man-tart - Aitch, you're fab.

Give the running a go - I feel better when I'm exercising - properly bone-tired, not just head-tired.

I have a shock absorber.

I need to get on that thread, I think. Well, again. I bobbed on quickly, didn't do any running, talked about running shoes and scarpered.

i have a sore knee, hunker...

and i got it from walking around with dd in the twatting buggy, not from running. i'll fall behind in Rawb's programme and i can believe i care.

yes I think I went on it and said 'oooooh I might join' and then fecked off
I need Rawb after me

i have spent the weekend hoicking DS up and down the 87 steps from the road to my sister's house (Wellington is VERY hilly and she lives in a house clinging to the side of a precipice) and walking a lot and I must say I do feel a bit better for it

can't

i thought you were off buying brassieres, my dear.

Aw, Aitch, sore knees are the pits. I have sore knees too, Aitch - hence being a bit about starting running again. Hope yours is mended soon. I'm v wary about mine, given my bedridden with arthritis history with the sodding things.

i have not run but for a bus since school and i am enjoying it, come along, everyone's very nice. we're like scuttlebuggers but with fewer word games.