36 weeks, exhausted and coping with toddler!

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Anyone got any tips for coping with a toddler when you are in late pregnancy and soooo tired you feel like you could fall asleep on your feet?

Got a newborn and toddler. It is definitely easier once baby is here. Despite the interrupted sleep I've got more energy and no massive bump to lug around! Hope time flies for you for the rest of the pregnancy

Glad you've said that hatetidying i am hoping to feel at least a tiny bit better with the newborn/toddler combo than i do right now.

Hi all, so happy i stumbled across this thread! Im 35 weeks with a 2.9yo and am recovering from flu . Have had ti start maternity early due to threatened labour last week (thankfully theyve delayed it with drugs).

Dd is still doing two days at the CMs a week (used to be four when I was working)so im currently child free every tues and weds which has been bliss.

We tend to watch a movie in the morning witb breakfast and its nice to just sit and not do much while we eat breakfast, then i can just about managed a trip to the supermarket for bits and bobs.

Shes sort of outgrowing her naps at the moment but im trying to foist one on her daily if i can. Then the afternoon we just have Ben and Holly on a loop (thank god theres new episodes on!) And do colouring in.

Have arranged a pub lunch with friends tomorrow at a place that has a softplay so she can burn off some serious energy while I sit and eat. Then theres just friday to tackle and dh will be off for two days.

Hello! 37+5 with a 2.5 yr old here, feeling the same as you ladies. Unfortunately lots of cbeebies here too, feel bad but just don't have the energy for going out. Thankfully he gets 2 days at nursery (whilst I commute 90 mins each way for work, urgh) - counting the days to ELCS next week! Let's hope newborn/toddler combo is easier :)

I'm so glad everyone else is watching too much Cbeebies too! Makes me feel so much better.

I want to ask you all - I've had a bad day today - crying a lot because I'm tired, huge, uncomfortable (you know how it is). I'm seriously thinking about asking for an ELCS because I'm not even 36 weeks yet and to think I may have 6 weeks left feeling like this (I was 11 days over with DS1) just makes me want to cry even more. Is this a reason that they'd give an ELCS if I were to talk to my midwife about it?

35 weeks here with a just turned 2 year old. I have a class/activity/meet up arranged every morning so we have a reason to get up and out, which also means he gets tired and has a nap.
I need that midday lie down as I have spd, off work on sick with it and starting maternity leave at 36 weeks. I find by 6pm I am done, the nights are worse as I struggle with my pelvis so much, poor husband only sees me after 6pm when I am a moaning wreck. He has 3 days off this weekend though so will have his nice wife about a bit!
I have a section booked at 39 weeks but son came at 38 weeks so there is this hope I only have 3 weeks left, I need to stop thinking that!
I know I will feel terrible after the section (had one last time too) but at least I will feel a bit better each day rather than a bit worse like now

Terrible day here, been lots of crying (both of us).

I have got a nasty cough and cold so hadn't slept since about midnight. I got up at 4 or 5 can't remember. Toddler up at half 5.

Boyfriend was nice and helpful and toddler was being good this morning but she doesn't understand why I can't pick her up any more and cries. THen ended up vomiting while trying to settle her for her nap. Called boyfriend in despair, he came home from work and sorted out an afternoon at nursery. I feel so guilty tired and weak. In bed now.

Getting loads of period-y pains but just trying to ignore them as no doubt will go overdue again.

12 days till due date but might as well be a lifetime. I am so shit at being pregnant.

weebairn, MB34, and Acider, you poor things No advice but just keep using TV/nursery as much as you can to get through the day until reinforcement arrives.

weebairn do you feel like something might be starting? Hope you can get some rest.

I'm glad it's not just me!! I'm 37 weeks with a lively (just turned) 2 year old!
I feel like a bad mummy sometimes too as he is watching far more TV than he usually does / I would like but I just see it as a temporary measure and needs must!!
I do try to get out every day still even if it is a trip to the shops or walk to the park but I have nowhere near as much energy as I usually do and just feel so big, tired & emotional all the time!
Things I can just about manage are sitting on the floor with DS whilst he plays with his cars / animals etc., reading to him, doing jigsaws, drawing or duplo etc.
He does have lots of energy though and really needs some activity/ a run around but I just don't feel up to it.
Luckily (for us all!) he is in nursery twice a week which helps and DH is around 3 days out of 7 so there are only 2 days when I have him to myself all day so I can just about cope with that!
Do want this little baby out though, but am anxious for what it will be like with 2???!!

I managed to my 28 week bloods done today (8 weeks late), food shopping and the beach. All with toddler. NICE.

Tomorrow i will not be able to move. Swings n roundabouts!

Thanks Greenstone. I got some rest this afternoon and have been having lots of period-like pains, and bump has dropped some more. Whether this means baby is coming tonight or coming in 3 weeks time, who knows…

DD is in nursery tomorrow so I will just take it easy. This end stage is no joke…

36 weeks here and have a 21 month old DD; so very glad it's not just me!! She's not really interested in tv but I do get her doing lots of things where I can sit down, like playing with pennies or emptying draws and putting everything back again. The whinging when I refuse to carry her is doing my head in today!

I've caved and booked her into nursery tomorrow so I can get on with painting as we're redecorating the entire upstairs before the new baby arrives. Think it's some crazy form of extreme-nesting and I may have bitten off more than I can chew; everything is in boxes, furniture in piles, wet paint and a toddler to keep away from wet door frames. I've also done NOTHING to prepare for the baby, and my c-section is in three weeks.

Are people still carrying their toddlers? Some days I can't stand the tantrums so I just do. Bloody hard now though!

Unfortunately sometimes. When he completely refuses to go upstairs/downstairs i don't have much choice. I avoid carrying otherwise though!

Been getting period pain on n off for a few days.....maybe the end is in sight? Or am i kidding myself to get over excited (am only 36+5 but ds was born at 31wks so i feel massively preg now!)

We can only live in hope Errrrr! I've been having period pains for the last week as well - quite a lot yesterday, I timed them at one point, they were 2-3 minutes apart for a few hours. All settled down now though. I am only 38+3 though so being a bit hopeful really. DD was 40+5.

It must be really strange being heavily pregnant for you! I'm sure a 31 week baby was extremely difficult - I guess the only minor compensation was not having to do the 37-42 week bit where TIME STOPS.

Yes, it is odd still being pregnant this time, a relief to know that we won't be having a tiddler, he was only 4lb 7 when we brought him home after a 5 week stay in hospital. But yes, there are some advantages to having a prem baby. Although I'm so glad that we're not having another prem and the endless days/weeks in hospital with a toddler to consider. Hoping for a more normal experience this time round!

Yes -sounds like a hard time and must have felt so long in hospital.

You are pretty much term now so all likely to be nice and straightforward whenever you come now :)

Selfishly, my toddler has not only indulged in a chest infection all week, but has now given it to me! I may accidentally cough out these fetuses

Yuck parallax, sounds rough. I am really struggling now, due tomorrow, although weirdly somehow still slightly in denial about whole thing. Still clinging on to what people have said about newborn being easier than pregnancy. It doesn't feel like I'll ever be able to get off a sofa in a dignified way again though. I make so much noise about it these days it makes DH rush in from the kitchen to check I haven't gone into labour.

Good luck to those who are starting to feel things happening, v jealous. Not even a twinge here!

Is anyone else shitting themselves about labour? Every time i think about it i get a tight chest and feel panicky. I coped last time and had a pretty straightforward birth but i just went into a bit of shock when it was happening and basically didn't talk for about 8 hours. I'm scared

I'm kind of not, because I don't really remember the first time that well. It has the quality of a really drunken night out in my memory. A pretty weird drunken night, admittedly. I can't remember what contractions feel like at all. (I'd like to stress I wasn't actually drunk! I'm guessing that would be frowned upon).

I'm more frightened of the first two weeks after, I can remember the nipple and fanjo discomfort /agony quite clearly.

ithoughtofitfirst

I felt the same at around 36 weeks - and I had a labour like yours perhaps, straightforward but still shockingly long and painful and hard- but I had a chat to a mate, my midwife and my mum and feel a lot better now, just impatient really. It did hit me like a ton of bricks a few weeks ago though, the thought of doing it again.

Hope it's just a wobble like mine was and you feel better soon.

I am told second ones are quicker and easier !!!!!

I can unfortunately remember exactly how awful contractions felt at 10cm....

Post birth I didn't feel too terrible though, bits were sore but not unbearable and I didn't find bf particularly painful.

God who'd be a woman...