I'm not sure what I'm hoping for by posting but just need to get things off my chest.
I am 6 weeks pregnant with a 6 month old baby whose sleep can be up and down. Currently teething so it's been awful and I'm absolutely exhausted. All I want to do is cry and I don't know how to sort it. A friend on a group chat today spoke about going to sleep for 12 hours straight and I felt almost a form of grief when I read it.
I knew having a baby would be exhausting but I wasn't prepared for how so. I miss being able to go to bed in the knowledge I'd get a good night's sleep. I miss how going to sleep used to be restorative and something I'd look forward to. A place where I could relax and have a lie in. Now I am filled with anxiety every night not knowing how the night will go and to know I'll be woken up multiple times probably to put a dummy in or shush baby back to sleep and I'll still be tired the next morning.
Being pregnant as well doesn't help. I'm constantly tired and even with an amazing husband and family support, I'm still tired. At times I've felt I don't want to carry on due to the sheer exhaustion.
I don't know what the solution is. In an ideal world I'd sleep train however we are at my parents while our house is being built and don't have the space to move baby to a spare room.
Co sleeping is not an answer before anyone comes up with this (as it is always brought out as the answer to all sleep problems). We don't have the room in bed for baby and I then don't want have to deal being pregnant and sharing a bed with a baby.
I do go to bed early some nights but night time is sometimes my only downtime and this is important to me.
I just feel I'm going down a spiral and no way out.