Feeling down with everything...

[pucca]

I am feeling very low suffering with horrific all day sickness and tiredness (6 weeks pg), i have a 2 yo swinging around my neck who has started to wake up through the night and i just feel like crying all the time.

My dh does try, but dd is very clingy with me atm, and tells him to go away if he tries to get her back to sleep, or if he does anything in fact.

I am starting to panic abit about how i will cope with 2, getting 2 bathed, dressed,fed etc...and i am willing this sickness to go away because i feel so awful.

Please cheer me up i need a pep talk i think.

Pucca-my sickness lasted to delivery day,what a nightmare so i am really feeling for you OK.
Hope you can find the foods that suit you-mine were rich tea biscuits,bananas,toast anything very plain.

You WILL cope,we do at the end even when the mountain looks so high.
I was the same-how on earth could i cope with a second,when one alone was so exhausting.But Mothers are amazing remember that.

I had bad PND with both of mine,breastfed both and have survived to sit here telling the tale.

Try and get as much sleep as you can and do not feel guilty or try and be superwoman.

Thinking of you-and if you want to have a good cry do,should actually help

Hello!

Imagine your two year old is worried - seeing you looking and being ill. May be worth a chat with her to explain, you may have done already.

Hope the sickness passes soon. I found ginger very useful and dry biscuits. Rehydration powders (from boots, tescos etc) are also good and replace the minerals you lose in sickness.

Hi Pucca, re the sickness try ginger ale, it really helped me this time round, I also have a 2yr old dd, and she too is doing the night waking thing, and I'm due in Feb, argh! luckily she appears to be coming round to the idea of a baby, especially now the bump is large and has started asking for her dad now at night instead of me, which is great on the sleep front for me, if not dh so I wouldn't worry too much at this early stage, its taken a few months of me weening her onto dh, but it now appears to be working nicely, in fact last night she even stated no mummy, want daddy
So try not to worry too much, I quite like a quote off one of the girls on our Feb thead, who stated, she'd taken 6mths to get used to having one dd, so would probably take another 6mths getting used to having 2 around I'm guessing she's right!

I have an 18 mth old who, as you so aptly put it, also swings around my neck. I found out I was pregnant 10 days ago and was gutted - how would I cope with him and a newborn!! Just as I started to come to terms with the idea I started to bleed and it now seems all is not well with the pregnancy. As mad as it seems I actually envy you, your sickness and your tiredness. Maybe considering the alternative might help you look at the situation differently. I hope you start to feel better soon and at least when baby comes there will be a nice age gap between the children & she will probably be less clingy by then.