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ANYONE ELSE TIRED AND RESENTFUL THIS MORNING??

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noonar · 21/01/2007 07:59

i'm feeling really resentful about being woken up at night, woken up early and having to deal with nightmare bedtimes. i cant be anything but grumpy this morning. anyone feeling the same?

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TrinityRhino · 21/01/2007 08:00

completely and absolutely, feel exactly the same

sleepyted · 21/01/2007 08:02

Dh has given himself a lie in. Have been up since 5 and he is in bed, now watching football. This is after his daughter and her friend coming over last night for dinner and then all going out, leaving me with the washing up and ds's bedtime.

Grrrr

Marshmellow · 21/01/2007 08:03

Every weekend! Have spent my time wondering when it was that i became this super bionic women who could live with hardly any sleep.

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noonar · 21/01/2007 08:03

do you take it out on the children, though? i'm being really ratty.

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TrinityRhino · 21/01/2007 08:06

yes totally, I'm a horrid ratty shitty useless mum at the mo, not just today but averaging about 4 to 5 hours a night and not all together is making me crazy
If dd2 isn't waking me up then I'm peeing or just trying to get comfy

I've already shouted at dd1 for eating with her mouth open and told her to gibe me some space when she wanted a cuddle
at the mo she seems to be annoying the hell out of me just by existing, I feel real bad

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noonar · 21/01/2007 08:16

oh trinity! dd2 just snuggled up to me on the sofa, but i felt too grumpy to put my arm round her. later in the day, they'll say 'i'm tired, mummy' and i will snap 'well you should try getting up a bit later'. at least we're not alone.

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TrinityRhino · 21/01/2007 08:18

thats exactly how I will be noonar

what do you think we should do?
Is there anything we can do to lift our mood?

cruisemum1 · 21/01/2007 08:24

You are me, I am you! ds 4mths woke hourly last night- he has a cold . dd is a perfect gem (she is 9yo) and I try soo hard to be happy and fun but sometimes it is such a struggle. I just want to feel human - is that too much to ask?! I hate the fact that I wake up wondering when it is a reasonable time to go to bed at night - ie not too early that I have no space but not late as I am knackered. dh never sees me these days. Mind you he does lie in every weekend and 99% of childcare is left to me

cruisemum1 · 21/01/2007 08:26

trinity - I guess we should reevaluate our lives in as much as some people lose children to horrible diseases, some people cannot have children. They would give their limbs to be able to say their chidren kept them up all night Not very uplifting I know but levelling.

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noonar · 21/01/2007 08:26

i dont know. maybe google our next holiday/ trip away- maybe a nice spa break?? you can alwyas dream... i always go for escapism!

dd1 has just got her book bag (she's in reception) and ask if she can read to me. she NEVER does this, so is obviuosly trying to please me. guilt, guilt, guilt...

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cruisemum1 · 21/01/2007 08:28

noonar - enjoy her. She will prob want 5 mins of your time and that will elevate you in her estimations again!

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noonar · 21/01/2007 08:28

cruisemum, that was much more solid advice. i'm too busy wallowing in self pity to think of others!

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noonar · 21/01/2007 08:30

i did read with her, and it did melt my heart a little that she was trying to be a 'good girl'. i'll be fine by mid morning...

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cruisemum1 · 21/01/2007 08:31

noonar - I re-read what I said and I sound like some kind of earth mother! . I too, am a grumpy old cow of a mother but just kind of trying to get the balance right. i waited 6 years to conceive ds and I cannot believe how shitty I get when I am tired. I am soooo ungrateful

cruisemum1 · 21/01/2007 08:32

Noonar - aaahhh! You made her day

katelyle · 21/01/2007 08:40

There is nothing - and I mean nothing - wrong with letting children have a dvd or some telly when you're tired! Make a nest for them with pillows and a duvet, put their favourite on, then go and have a shower, get dressed, have some breakfast and I guarantee you'll feel better.

Just a thought. Have those of you with dps/dhs who are "giving themselves a lie in" actually gone into the bedroom and said firmly " Please can you get up and look after the children for a while."

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noonar · 21/01/2007 08:49

kate, they are watching tv atm. and dh gives me a lie in more often than he gets one, to be fair. i know that many others have less supportive partners, so prob shouldnt moan.

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ScoobyDooooo · 21/01/2007 08:53

feel the same this morning had a rubbish nights sleep with dd up & down all through the night then she has been awake since about 6am, only good thing is dp is up too so i am nt alone

TrinityRhino · 21/01/2007 08:56

my dh hardly sleep at all, he has tinnitus, insomnia and when he does manage to sleep, he has sleep apnoea which effects his quality of sleep

I alwasy get up with the kids

dd2 (21 months) doesn't sleep well, is up in the night alot, I'm 38 weeks pregnant and have had a headache for the last 2 days and nights

I feel like shit, my heads still banging won't go away with paracetemol, my spd seems to have got worse ( i think the baby had moved down)

I feel sick again like at the beginning of the pregnancy and I have seemingly constant heartburn

soryy whinge, moan,I'll shut up now

princessmel · 21/01/2007 09:05

TR have you told the midwife about your headaches??? Just to rule out Pre whatever its called.

I was up very early too. Dd woke at 5.15 and that was her up for the day. Dh is at work , again, so its just us. They are actually playing really ,really nicely for a change. Driving cars down the little slide that I brought in from the garden.

potoroo · 21/01/2007 09:08

I am very grumpy this morning. DH had a lie in yesterday morning, a sleep on the couch yesterday afternoon (while I sorted out DS and worked on my assignments).
This morning (supposed to be my turn for a lie in) he complained he was sick (a coldsore FFS - even more pathetic than man-flu) and went back to sleep.

I am pregnant too. And have already yelled at DS.

At least I am not the only one.

potoroo · 21/01/2007 09:09

But to make myself feel better I left the bedroom and living room doors open, and DS is playing the recorder (he is not quite 2)

TrinityRhino · 21/01/2007 09:10

lol potoroo

will be seeing the midwife tommorow

JARM · 21/01/2007 09:13

Im with you lot!

Jessica woke at 2.45am with the wind/rain storm we had.

Took until about 5am for her to settle back, and thatwas on the sofa downstairs - at which point I went upstairs and booted DH out of bed to come down and lay with her.

I got up about 30 mins ago.

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noonar · 21/01/2007 09:14

sympathies all round.xxx

trinity, you have put me to shame. you have REAL reasons to complain.poor you. as far as your dh goes, and i do have first hand exp of tinitus- induced insomnia, has he tried all the usual white noise devices? i know you prob know all about it, but i found having a fan in the room created a good masking effect. has he had it long?

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