Tiredness

[LiamsMum]

Just wondering if anyone else out there seems to feel perpetually tired?!! Since I had ds, I don't seem to be able to sleep for as long as I used to, and I find that quite often I feel like lying down during the day. He's 26 months old now and is a good sleeper, generally he sleeps from 8.00pm - 7.00am and never wakes up through the night, so I don't know why I am always tired. Perhaps it's just the stress of having a toddler around and being an 'older' mum. Does anyone else feel as though they never get enough sleep?

Eulalia - have to agree with you! When my DS has his (long - 3 hours!!) afternoon nap do I do housework, catching up,useful stuff etc.? No, I turn to mumsnet or go back to bed with a good book myself!

You guys are worrying me. 1st baby due in March and I am an 8hours a night or else I'm a zombie kind of girl. How do you all cope?
Also am planning on starting distant learning type course sometime between now and March and have no idea whether will be able to function enough to continue it once bump materialises. Am I mad to even contemplate it?

Oh dear Sam!!!
The early days are the worse when you can be up in the night once or twice, but you do get used to it and like the others are saying, I would recommend sleeping any time you get the chance, if you can nap in the day, go for it, because it is very tiring.
It does get easier later on, but I have never slept as well as I did pre kids, and sleeping is one of my favourite hobbies, according to my hubby!!!!!!!

Please don't all hate me - but I have never had so much energy since having dd(now 5 1/2 months). Having said that I did have a terrible pregnancy (lost 2 stone by 12 weeks due to continual vomiting which also meant sleepless nights and then spent weeks 33-37 in hospital befoer having dd due to ob cholestasis) so I feel deserved an easy child.
One thing that made my life a lot easier after the birth was wonderful dh doing ALL the night feeds with ebm during the first 2 weeks when he was off work - it really allowed me to recharge my batteries. After that I found that I could cope on 2x3 hour sleeps until dd started sleepng through. I think there mus tbe some sort of hormonal change cos before getting pregnant I used to need at least 8 hours, and could happily lie in bed and sleep until 2pm on a Saturday.
so you might be OK Sam29 - and the 2nd trimester is usually when you get more energy so gofor it with tehtyping course - just listen to your body and don't try to do too much if youdo get tired

Oops - just re-read and yours is not a typing course - but mine should be

Dear sam29.
Don't worry! It's your first baby, so you can sleep when he/she sleeps. Honestly, with DS1 we used to sleep the clock round. I got more sleep with him (albeit interrupted by breastfeeds) than before he came. He slept really late in the mornings, woke up for a feed, then went back to sleep again, so I managed to prove all those 'you'll never sleep again'-mongers wrong.
Which is why it hit me like a ton of bricks when number 2 came along, fed more and slept less. Still do quite well though, considering. Better than some.
HTH

Sam29 - I personally couldn't consider a course/job/anything until my child is at least 18 by which time I shall be over 60 & too old for anything!! HA HA

Everyone is different but in my experience (baby at 42) I have never been so exhausted in my life - I found it difficult to sleep when (if) the baby was asleep in the day, but I did get plenty of rest.

I sometimes cannot believe I am the same person that got up at 5.30am, drove to London to work, in my office by 7.30pm, supervised a large team, lots of different hobbies & interests in the evenings .....where has life gone??!!

Good luck Sam29 - hope you've got loads of energy!

The whole sleep thing amazes me. When ds was born over 3 years ago, I thought I would age prematurely through lack of sleep. Everytime ds nodded off, so did I. The funny thing is now I've got 2 and a good night is if I accumulate six hours sleep, I get no opportunity to sleep during the day and yet I seem to be firing on all cylinders. Maybe the body just adjusts itself to less sleep. I'm probably going to turn into one of those irritating mothers who leaps around at 8am in the morning demanding her teenage children get out of bed - aahh, that'll be the day!

I am always so tired I go to bed between 9 and 10pm. Dd goes to bed at 8pm and wakes up usually once or twice in the night and then gets up at 6:30am. What really annoys me is my mother saying how boring I am not staying up/going out and how my generation have it easy and complain too much..yawn yawn - does anyone else have a mother like this?

Grommit - my mother asks me why I'm tired with a puzzled look on her face. Err let me think about that one for a minute Mum....