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I am an awful mummy

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kitkey · 09/11/2010 09:14

I am such an awful mummy. Where to start
I have DS1 who is nearly 3 and DS2 who is 18 mths old. I am also pregnant 7 weeks with number 3 who was planned but now I am very very anxious about how I will cope and my mum is really rubbing this issue in with me - asking me to consider termination and saying I have made a big mistake blah blah

DS2 gets up really early - this am 5am. Anyway he has always been a difficult clingy child and spends a lot of the day whinging and whining and over reacting to his brother who is sometimes a bit mean to him. Well this morning he has really pushed me to the limit with his whinging and whining at me so i put him in the hallway and then just because i was so made gave him a little push and he fell over. This is awful awful awful - I have shouted STOP IT in his face recently too. I think i partly over-react to his behaviour as the whinging is so relentless wherever we are - park, playgroup he is whining at me making tea, going for a wee - i feel sick and a wretching a lot too with him whining beside me, and partly because he fuels my anxiety about a 3rd child that he is not ready and is going to be difficult. When DS1 was 18mths, DS2 was a month old - no way could i survive a newborn now Don't get me wrong I love him with all my heart and soul and he can be such a delight and is copying new words everyday. I love him dearly but he is so demanding - this doesn't excuse any of my terrible behaviout

Anyway I deserve all the awful things that are going to happen to me if i push and shout at an 18 month old - such a cow.

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InmaculadaConcepcion · 28/11/2010 10:36

Really sorry to hear your news, kitkey.

Hope you're alright and you're getting some well-deserved TLC from your nearest and dearest.

Rafi · 28/11/2010 10:43

I'm so sorry, ktkey - hope you're all right and that you manage to ocnceive again soon.

Onetoomanycornettos · 28/11/2010 13:13

I'm also sorry to hear this, you do sound like a lovely normal slightly frazzled mum of little children! Hope it happens for you again, you will cope and your youngest will get less clingy, we used to call my youngest the monkey at this age as she literally clung to me like a little baby monkey and it doesn't help when every other toddler is running off at playgroup and yours is clinging to your ankles. Good luck with it all and posting for a whinge is a good idea.

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