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?

Oh god yes. I love this thread, especially the hope that this may be as bad a it gets!

6 weeks with no.2. DD is 19 months. DP away a lot.

On Wednesday I got up, got DD ready, went to work, got home by 7pm and did bath and bed. Finished at 8.30 and wolfed down some food. Started work again and finished at 11.30.

Thursday I left the house at 5.30am to go to Manchester (from London) for an all day meeting. Got home at 9.30pm.

Exhausted isn't the word. Well, it is but it is insufficient.

I was looking at my workload with my boss today and I have officially got 2.2 times as much work as I have time for (based on how much we are charging the client for what I do). Normally I could run with it for a while, work super fast and long hours and crack on. But I want to go back to bed from about 10am at the moment!

ThinkAboutItTomorrow are you me?!

I worked until nearly 39 weeks with my DD. This time I'm crying off at 36 weeks as I just need a break! 2 weeks left now and the travelling, absent DH and pressure of handing over work is taking me to a point where I can't think about anything other than the first day I'm on mat leave and DD is in nursery.

Pastaandcheese hang in there. It's very close!

I'm actually thinking of working longer this time as DD was 2 weeks late so I wasted 4 weeks waiting and getting frustrated.

DD is only 14 months old, and I'm 6 months pregnant! Would bloody love it if she was 2+ and able to walk properly !!!! Try picking up a non walking baby all the time (and moving quickly to stop her going flying on her face as she stumbles around all over the place)

Yes, am exhausted! Think a 2-3yr age gap would be a breeze compared to this

Yes purplebaubles I tend to agree.

You have my sympathy

And you'll have 2 in nappies for quite a while!

Yes. 12 weeks pregnant, teaching full time and have a very active 2 year old. Good thing is I don't really have much time to think about it.

Glad to hear stories from mums-of-two about the transition! I have big worries that active DS who will be 2.7 when baby is due will quickly cotton on to the fact that mom settling down for a bf feed is an opportunity to get up to mischief in another room for 20 mins! Really hope the baby is a quick feeder and a good sleeper!
How does one catch toddlers with a baby in the pram?!! DS fav place to take off is at the pay machine of a car park of our local play centre...

I found being pregnant harder than having the baby and toddler. Pregnancy utterly exhausted me, along with working full time (I'm a HCP) and having a non-sleeping way too energetic toddler. Now I have 2.3yo and 5week old and at least I can move fast again to save DS1 from certain death every 10mins and have the energy now to wrestle him into clothes of a morning.

I finished work 4weeks before due date but kept DS1at nursery 3days a week just to get some rest. I use a sling a lot now since DS2 always wants cuddling and I can get stuff done with him in it (sorting DS1 with dinner and chasing him down the street!)

It's ap difficult!

i have ds1 who is 2.4 and ds2 who is 10 days old. Pregnancy was difficult. Ds1 watched too much tv but i was just drained.