Please be gentle. I’m 7.5 months pregnant with a 2 year old busy busy toddler, 2 older girls who are 10&12 and we’ve just moved from London to the country. My life has been flipped upside down in a week. I knew it was going to be an adjustment, but I’m really feeling the weight of the isolation and the changes.
-the move was close to traumatic- the movers were useless and had advertised themselves as doing it all- on the hottest day of the year. They didn’t do it all and what should have been done in a day was done over the course of the week costing nearly twice what we budgeted for and causing intense mental stress.
-my older two finish up their school term next week so im commuting them in, an hour each way.
-my toddler was in nursery while I packed the house- a few hours in the morning for 2 months. He’s now home. That’s been a huge change.
-I’m very uncomfortably pregnant. And I fell down the stairs on Sunday and sustained a terrible cut on my foot that required multiple stitches and I loss half a pint of blood. It was our first real day together as a family and instead of spending it doing something fun together, I had to go to ae.
-the last few months have been so incredibly stressful- I’ve been sick with anxiety.
-trying to arrange new schools and schedules for the children- I have no control over where they end up in schools as they are all full.
And now I’m feeling so low, like I’m a huge burden to my family and a failure as a mother and can’t get off the couch. I’m really struggling. I’m actually feeling a bit scared about my mental health at this point even though I know it’s likely just exhaustion.
I need a bit of a hand hold- please.