November 2007 Apple Dumplings

I'm sure it has a lot with you being pregnant. I was exhausted with AD. But I had 2 of my older kids exactly 2 years apart and I sat around a lot while pregnant! Don't worry you'll be fine.

The problem comes with them being close in age later on. I always said, they play together really well (in fact, they act like best friends sometimes.) but they also fight a lot too. And it's still the same.

I feel like I spent half my pregnancy with Kaley laying on the couch and watching Kenny play.  It totally SUCKED!!  But thankfully my energy came back once she was born, so hopefully that's just what is going on with you.

I do however still look forward to bedtime some nights....pregnant or not!!  Kenny goes down at 7 so it doesn't happen that often....I have a feeling if his bedtime was 8 it would be a daily thing though, LOL!  The more tired he gets the rammier and more mischievous he gets.  Shortly before Kaley was born I realized I was disciplining Kenny a lot at night (his old bedtime was 7:30).  When I realized it was a tired thing we bumped his bedtime up, and since then it's been a lot better.

Janey

If she still takes a nap, can you take a nap with her? It might help in the energy department come bedtime for her.

But if it helps to know, DH and I "count the seconds" til our AD is asleep these days because he's in that "almost done with naps" limbo and is up late every other night seems like.
But neither of us is pg, so you are doing well!

And when you have 2 of them, my advice is, take a nap when the AD naps, and let the baby nap with you if possible. I didn't have that situation because my other child was 3 when my AD was born, and was done with naps long before. So she played V-smile when the baby and I napped, if I couldn't get her to lie down with us.

Bless you and hang in there.

 

-Meg, postal carrier's wife, mother to DD born c/sec 9/04 and DS born at home 11/07. Homebirth After Caesarean ROCKS!