so..... when do I stop feeling so knackered.........?

[MrsMc82]

DS is 7mo (pfb) and I'm very lucky that he's a great sleeper (7 till half6/7/8 most days occassionally wakes in night but pretty quickly will settle back to sleep so I that I am able to too......) And yet I'm STILL knackered all the time........
How is this so??? I know how lucky I am that he sleeps thru so just don't get how am so tired........
My girlfriends with babies of around the age seem to have the same feeling too - can't seem to make it much past half 9 at night without needing to get to bed...... Feel bad for dh as don't really seem to have any energy to spend "quality" time with him.
A friend told me that they reckoned it took her body a year to get over having a baby and somone else told me that they pretty much never went back to normal..... Is this true?????
Am I going to have to just suck it up or will it get better??

i also find it takes a year or there abouts.

I'd say by the time ds was 12mnths I felt pretty much back to normal. He started sleeping through from about 10/11mnths so this helped, but I think it was the fact he was starting to walk, and seemed to be easier to entertain. He was also in more of a regular pattern instead of it being a constant round of feeding, changing, napping etc.

The best thing you can do is get out on an evening....obv.cant do it very often, but my mum used to have ds to sleep over at hers so me and dp (or the girls) could have a night out without worrying about getting up early in the morning. The morning lie ins are bliss, and then when I'd go to pick ds up I'd feel so refreshed and full of energy, I could be a mich better mummy to him.

My youngest is four and a half and I am still knackered [hmmm].

In hindsight I think that there's some truth in what your friend said about it taking about a year to get back to 'normal' - although not necessarily in the physical sense.

Are you going back to work?

I went back to work full time when dd was 7 months old and it nearly killed me. She's just over a year now and I'm probably doing more than ever but am sort of in to the swing of it. It's taken me a long time to get over the fact that there's not a day of the year we're out of bed, wide awake past 7am. I have a pretty stressful job but I feel as though I've done at least the same day's work when it's the weekend - in some ways more so (ie. now she's walking, argh!).

I'm still knackered all the time and ds is 3.7..... It's the combination of being "on the go" all day from 7am (if I'm lucky) to 7.30pm and never getting a lie in to catch up. Pre-children, you'd get up early all week for work, but at the weekend you'd lie-in and relax more. I used to sleep in the day every couple of days when ds was smaller and was having long lunchtime naps (maybe this would work for you), but now that doesn't happen anymore. My dh lies in at weekend, and is a real night bird - we often clash about me needing to get to sleep before 11pm......8hrs a night just isn't enough for me, but some people can survive on much less.

no, mrspickles, not even breast feeding! So can't blame that!!
Went for dinner with girls from work on fri and when asked how I was I said how knackered I am and one of them say "oh yeah bet its really tiring having a baby thta sleeps from 7 till 7" really sarcasticly, prob being really over sensitive but its stuck in my head and am feeling like others think I have no right to be tired..... Reassuring to know its pretty normal......
Think it will prob only get worse whe am back at work in 8 weeks time...... I'm really dreading it!!!!
I do sometime sneak a nap in the day (but feel massively guilty about it) as ds has a 2hr nap from 9ish and going back to bed feels like a proper luxury and does me the world of good but is also tainted with The Guilt!!! :o

Pls ingnore bad spelling!!!

Are you kidding? My mum always said you will be knackered until your youngest child starts full time school - but if you are working I would say you will be knackered until your youngest is old enough to get up and play on his own and get his own breakfast in the morning and bring you a cup of tea in bed. So about 25 years' time.

oldenoughtowearpurple :)

My eldest is 11 but my youngest is only 3, I'm knackered all the time, but the eldest has started making me cups of coffee so maybe there is hope on the horizon.

Sorry MrsMC82 - there are differing degrees to knckered, when they finally sleep through the night you will be less knackered than you are now.

ds is 5 and I feel more knackered now than I did at the baby stage.

I think unfortunately each stage of growing up brings it difficulties as well as its joys and its tiring trying to figure out how to make the difficult times easier