being pregnant aswell as being a mum to a toddler

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Has anybody else found it exhausting being a mum to a toddler aswell as dealing with the effects of being pregnant?

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I haven't experienced this as this is my first pregnancy but Im already thinking how on earth would i cope with a toddler if i got pregnant again. I really don't know how anyone does it. i work full time and by the time i get home i just want to go to bed. I take my hat off to anyone juggling pregnancy with other dc x

yes and very 'and having a stressful job has sapped any energy i might have had left

Yes!! I'm 8 weeks and my daughter is just 3!! She drains my energy so much! She does go to playgroup in the mornings so that's a little break! It is hard work but it's not forever!!

Yep. A non-sleeping toddler at that, plus a full-time job. Christ knows how I found the energy to get upduffed again in the first place!

Yes it's bloody hard work, my little one is just 4 and I'm 20 weeks with number 2!!! Oh god it's draining and I work full time! The first couple of weeks were terrible, looking back I don't know how I coped!!!!!!

I've errased it from my memory - I had 1 year old twins when I got pregnant with 3rd

Yes, very. 3 year old and 32 weeks.

Not sure if having a new born is going to be worse though!

There is almost 2 years to the day between DD1 and DD2, both born late August. I struggled a lot in the first trimester with DD2 as I was so tired, then in June/July in the hot weather I just wanted to curl up and die, I was so sore with SPD, felt huge and was tired and hot and simply did not want to be chasing after a 23 month old. But we got through it... don't want to do it again though!

Too knackered to answer properly. 17 weeks pg and DS is 19 mo. Dreading the rainy days when we can't go out and he's climbing the walls.

Elph how nice to see you my sleep misery buddy

Yup. Full time job. Nine weeks pg. Two yo ds. Exhausted.

Yes. It's exhausting. I have a two year old, am 34 weeks pregnant and a busy job. Plus DH has been working abroad all month. I'm not quite sure I can get much more tired and yet I know I will when the baby arrives.

Jerryfud how on earth did you survive????

Yes, very.

There are 16mo between my two. I remember leaping up from the floor when DD2 was about 5 days old to stop DD1 from doing something dangerous and thinking "this leaping business is much easier to do without a bump!"

That said, the number of times I've nearly lost a nipple by trying to unlatch DD2 to go and catch DD1 are too numerous to mention - so it doesn't get much easier Sorry!

It was fucking exhausting. I got pg with DS2 when DS1 was 2. Luckily he still napped so I did too. And I only worked 2 days a week. And we discovered peppa pig. We watched a lot of our little pink friend. She was my saviour. And then when I was 6 months ds1 started doing mornings at nursery, I went to 1 day a week and I spent a lot of time with my feet up being admitted to hospital as I suddenly got high risk for the pregnancy. Actually the worst but was the first 4 months when I had ms. Spent a lot of that at soft play quietly sobbing while DS1 had a ball.

It's not easy. I'm 13 weeks & DS is 21 months. I have horrific sickness & OH is in the army and works away Monday-Friday, I feel like death & throw up EVERY time I change a dirty nappy or have to cook veg for DS. My friend just had a baby - her DD is also 21 months, she said it's easier having 2 than a toddler & pregnancy

Yep - exhausting - 25 weeks and a 2.4 DS who I've just started potty training in the hope he can be out of nappies before baby arrives. Oh and we have a puppy who is also not yet house trained. I seem to spend my life in a haze of disinfectant on my hands and knees. The worst thing is, I know it's going to be even harder when the baby arrives, how am I going to cope?!!

Oh yes pretty exhausted here too at 13 weeks with a 21 month old (waves at hayley). Luckily MS didn't hit me too hard and I'm hoping the hypothyroidism that has just been discovered is partly to blame for the exhaustion and when the tablets kick in I'll magically feel better.
Otherwise I forsee a lot of TV watching in my DD's future!

Yes it is difficult - much harder than having a toddler and a newborn! Just remember this is the toughest bit and it will get easier.

Yes, SAHM to zippy 28-month-old boy, and due in two weeks. Exhausted, exhausted, exhausted.

My parents are going to stay with me for eight weeks after the birth, which will no doubt be a godsend. (And dare I say it, but I am looking forward to September, when DS1 will turn three and start at preschool two mornings a week.)

NancyinCall not to alarm you, but hypothyroidism can go really wacky after birth. I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's ten months after my first boy, and it took a year of hyper/hypo swings before the medication seemed to work.

DD1 was so exhausting between 2-3 that I never really noticed the being PG with here sister bit.

DD1 fiddled with everything in the adult world and climbed anything that could be climbed, toddler slide, big children's frame, bookcase, wobbly table, ladder left in the garden, tree. She wasn't fussed.

She showed no interest at all in age appropriate toys and ran off if not on reins.

I mostly forgot I was pg, I was so damned fed up of never finishing an adult conversation, because she was off up to mischief again.

However, she was utterly lovely when DD2 arrived and even tempered the vanishing a touch.

She's 15 and utterly lovely, a keen scientist, still fascinated by the world (and just occasionally she still fiddles and she has a dangerous hobby to replace the climbing).

Ds is 21 months and I'm 32 weeks pregnant. I have no idea how I have survived (I have crappy pregnancies).

Ds has a cold and is waking up about every 45 minutes unable to breathe. It's going to be another loooooong night.

Yes! DS is 2.3yo & i'm having elcs on tuesday at 39+2 weeks. Am utterly drained of energy & am suffering with pregnancy insomnia. I am a full time sahm and the only things that have kept me same are help from Grandad when suffering morning sickness, help from friends at toddler groups and lots and lots of chocolate. So pleased to be on final countdown now. Its bloody hard work.

I'm currently 10 weeks pg and have a 16 mo old who started her day a hour ago after breast feeding on and off since 2am.

I'm now sat on the sofa feeling sick as s dog nursing a cup of bloody decaf coffee trying to ignore her cuteness and planning my escape.