Increasingly exhausted, anyone else?

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I'm 39 and my DD is 2 and I feel that I'm becoming more and more tired and overwhelmed. She's an energetic little girl and thankfully is getting past the manic, aggressive stage and is more thoughtful but I feel as though I'm doing too much again. I work three days a week one developing my own business and two days in a job where I've to stand for 7 hours a day, when I pick her up from daycare she wants to career around the local park and to be perfectly honest it's the last thing I want to do. I try to lift her as little as possible as I'm not very strong and feel her weight across my back and shoulders. I like to get up at 5.30am to have an hour to myself before the ambush of daughter and husband descends at 6.30am and feel that I need to get to bed at around 9pm to be able to achieve this, DD is not sleeping until 8pm, I feel insane around ths time as I know that I'll only have an hour to myself!!!

Do others fell this that it gets more and more difficult to pack everything in as they get older, I need to downsize and build up my physical strength but what give??? I hate faceing the fact that I'm less capable because of my age but I know it will be a factor

I am in my 40s and have a 5 year old and a nearly 2 year old. I feel knackered most of the time - disturbed sleep I think.
It sounds like you are not getting enough 'rest' time to recharge and your job does sound tiring. Are there any health issues to check out if you are not feeling strong? eg anaemia etc.
Can your husband help more eg give you occasional lay in. [My husband crap like that!].
Any way to start the bed time routine earlier so dd asleep by 7pm -easier said than done I know.
Good luck!

As 2Boys says, get checked by the doctor, but assuming you get the all clear:

Personally, I'd cut the early mornings to 30 mins of quiet time and stay up a bit later.

I'd also get DD to bed earlier -start by bringing bedtime forward just a few mins each day

I know the natural response when feeling tired to to get to bed earlier, but I actually find I'm more tired if I have a very early bedtime, so perhaps 10pm would be Ok and would make a huge different to the time you get to yourself in the evenings, especially if DCs inis in bed by 7pm.

Finally, I know it sounds trite, but some exercise and fresh air really works wonders when you're feeling generally low/tired and would help strengthen your back too. Maybe 30 min brisk walk at lunchtime?