any other mums completely exhausted and what is the remedy?

[mommie]

i have felt pretty much under the weather physically since dd was born. just when i think i can see the wood for the trees, i come down with something else. is this common? she is 14 months old and my doc is good but getting to the surgery is a real hassle, so it's just out with the nurofen again...

ds3 is now 18months and i know how you feel! i seem to remember everything perking up hugely when ds2 was about 2 and i started to feel human again. am hoping that happens this time

a friend of mine swears by echinacea to keep colds away. havent got round to it myself yet tho

It is a tough business. I have been feeling ill the last day or two but I have discovered the cause - my period. It has made me very tired, headachey, odd aches in my back and stomach, even slightly faint and sick for odd seconds. I just remember what is was like pre children and thank God this is all I am feeling.

As for you, you could try lots of vitamins, fresh fruit and veggies, eating well generally, getting lots of sleep, relaxing in a hot bath regularly, just generally being kind to yourself. If your baby is not sleeping the night, try working at that so you get all the sleep you need too.

mommie, omly thing I can recommend is going to bed early yourself and trying to get as much sleep in as poss....

hope you feel batter soon!

ssd - you are right; could sleep for Britain

I was the same....plus, that first non b'feeding winter was wall-to-wall viruses in our house: DD, DH, and me from September to April. I did start to feel better when she got to about 18 months (plus it was summer then) and now she is nearly two and this winter, so far, just one teeny cold for her and NONE for me! Hang in there...I feel for you.

xxC

DD is a bit older (almost 5), but I have been feeling exhausted and run down too. I went to the doctor last week for flu shot, and she did some bloodwork. Turns out that my iron levels are seriously low, which could definitely be contributing to how I've been feeling. Might be worth looking into that for yourself too....

dont try to be supermum - relax and be lazy and dont feel guilty about it.we all do too much as it is!

Mommie,my ds is 16 month and I am only now coming to life (I also have a 5 year old and it was roughly the same time frame for her.)

I suggest good food,not much booze,sleep and some exercise.
Working wonders for me at present.

Echinecea is very good. My winters have been so much better since taking it. You can't take it all the time though so I just take a low dose October - March. Have you also tried Floradix. It is a liquid iron formula. Brilliant stuff. Quite expensive, about £8 a bottle from Holland and Barrett. That will last you about 2 weeks. Again, mustn't take it all the time so I just do a 2 month blast of it every now and then. Gets into your system much better and quicker than iron tablets and it is all herbal and natural stuff. Worth a try. May help.

Teifi,you must be an Aberteifi girl??

I suffer from exhaustion, I ahve been seeing a homeopath and it may be concidence but I am feeling slightly better and it has only been a month.

Fascinating article about homeopathy in today's Telegraph tsap.
After sixexhaustive years of research,they've concluded that it really does work.

I ahve to admit I was very sceptical about homeopathy, but work offered to send me so i thought I woudl give it a whirl. I am still not 100% convinced, I am also on medication from the doctor and have done a lot of work on myself.

The only thing about these homeopathy studies is that often the homeopath asks have I helped you feel better and the patient may feel obliged to say yes and this is recorded as success. In my case my homeopath spent an hour talking things through with me looking at my lifestyle and my attitudes to myself and those around me. he was quite blunt and made me face things that perhaps I knew but didn't want to admit. I do not know if the talk helped more than the remedy.

But as I said for the first time in a while Ia m starting to feel better so i am going back to both my doctor and the homeopath.

I don't buy the telegraph (despite the twinset and pearls I am a leftie liberal guardian reader!) is it available online?

Typing link in for you as I speak...

Should be here

(I'm a bit of a leftie liberal too..people do a double take when they see me with the DT.)

Very interesting, I have problems with stress and I am a lot better much calmer and I ahve much more energy - this could be the homeopathy or conventional medicine.

But the homeopath also gave me something for my constant runny nose and sneezing and that has got better, as have my stomach upsets.

I found taking iron pills helped and also force yourself to go to bed once the baby is asleep even if to lay in bed and read.

Wish I knew an answer. I've felt exhausted since S was born. For the first 3 months it was sheer hell then we had a month of him sleeping 11-7 which helped me catch up plus dh paid for 2 afternoons of nursery a week so i could a) study and b) sleep. then S got ill. He recovered at 6 months but then I went back to work f/t when he was 7 months old (about 3 weeks ago) All the advice is really about doing less - noone suggests what to do if you can't do less? I'm already ignoring half the housework I'd like to get done but I still don't seem to have enough hours in the day

get your thyroid function checked with a blood test, ask the GP to do this for you and don't take no for an answer.

I 'm not a doctor so I cant' give you a diagnosis, but a low thyroid function makes you feel half dead and completely exhausted, as though even 12 hours sleep would not do you any good. With a simple blood test you could eliminate this possibility and then focus on another cause.

Thanks Moondog for that link... facinating

Hello Moondog. I am not an Aberteifi girl but my husband is an Aberteifi boy! Lovely place, very pretty.

Moomie. I can remember my 2nd child being about 3 and feeling like I had been exhausted for ever! I remember wondering if I would ever feel any energy ever again. I did. It did return when she was about 4. (Then I fell pregnant with my 3rd and I feel exhausted all over again!). But energy does return eventually. For some it is sooner, for others it is longer. But there is an end to the tunnel of exhaustion!

Twinsetandpearls, what did the homeopath give you for your runny nose and constant sneezing as I have felt like this for 3mnths? I used to attend the gym regularly but just don't feel like it with these symptoms. Yesterday I bought a new artificial duvet as I wondered if it was perhaps an allergy to down.

Hi Teifi..neither am I but my dh is an Aberteifi boy too!
I love it down there.