I'm so tired I'm so tired I'm so tired I'm so tired...

[motherinferior]

...is there any way to stop being so tired?

I go to bed at around 10, dammit. My children, aged one and three, sleep through the night (although the little one was ill last week) until 6ish (or, horrors, earlier). I eat reasonably healthily. I even get some exercise, although not as much as I'd like because I'm so damn TIRED. I'm far too tired to contemplate DP's suggestions of Wild and Passionate Lurve (baybeee) with anything but exhausted horror. Is this just nature's way of pointing out I should have had my children when I was younger, not embark on the first one at 37? And is there any way to stop being SO DAMN TIRED????

(sinks head in hands exhaustedly...)

MI- I totally appreciate the getting up at 6am thing, DS has always been like this and nothing we've done has helped; bed later, blackout blinds, etc etc
Agree that it is good to try and do 'turns' to get up at the time, even an extra hour can be like heaven. We normally do this and it makes it cope-able with but last 2 weeks DP has been working awful 15 hour days and so I've had to do every day at 6am- it's such a killer, even if you're in bed by 10.

One other idea - and don't dismiss it as hippy weirdness but Transcendental meditation worked amazingly for me. I was always knackered and started doing this (after weekend course) - it was a bloddy revelation. I know CountessDrac does it and some others on here, It really has altered my energy levels.

You are all so, so kind. Thank you. Lots of good advice and good ideas and above all SYMPATHY.

The way we do mornings is not, thank god, to bound out of bed but they do stomp in for a cuddle - well, dd1 stomps, dd2 is brung in - and then it is possible to let them frolic about on the floor while dp has his morning shower - and then possibly even takes them AWAY - but it's not the same, really, is it, as just slumbering through.

In the meantime I'll slurp wine and gorge steak, sounds a nice way to go!

MI, how is it now? Any better? No suggestions really other than can you borrow a grandparent to look after your girls for a weekend so you and dp can book into a hotel for a nice long, ahem, sleep? Sympathy...poor you, 6am is shite isn't it?

MI, it hit me today how incredibly tired I am all the time. Some days worse than others but every day I'm tired, physically and mentally. I've only got 1 dd who's 22 months but she doesn't go to a childminder (incidentally, ever thought of taking a kip when they're at the childminders?). I work 2 days a week and those days dp looks after dd, then he needs to work 5 days so I look after her for 5 days. I'm literally on the go all the time, never a 'day off', in fact have only had 2 since dd was born. That's what gets to me I think. The relentlessness of it all, I'd love a break.

sorry, didn't mean to post my own tiredness story on your thread :(.