No patience

Anybody else’s patience just completely gone out of the window. I am constant loosing my rag with my toddler the past 2 days. I think it’s mainly pregnancy hormones and knowing I’m going to give birth next week but also my partner (the children’s dad) left us last week so that doesn’t help. I am constantly telling her to stop or no because she is testing boundaries and it is constant she always wants to be kissing my breasts (a comfort thing since I’ve been pregnant) and I feel so touched out. I know everything. She is doing is developmentally normal and is because she can sense baby coming and a lot of change with dad moving out but I just feel so guilty and overwhelmed for being so short with her all the time.

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Yes absolutely, and not even just a recent thing- about half way through pregnancy I realised my patience was getting really thin! It takes a lot of effort not to snap or be really blunt sometimes and I definitely don’t cover it up- you can tell! But I think it is just normal with hormones, etc. Plus you’re dealing with a toddler and your partner leaving, thats extra for you, it is totally normal to be feeling this way, please try not to feel guilty. I’m sure you’re doing the best you can with a lot on your plate! X

Absolutely get it. You have a lot on your plate. And then all the hormones too! I find myself getting short with our dog, she wants walked at 6am with ice out. And is crying, but with a toddler and being heavily pregnant, we are trying to train her that walkies will happen but just not as rigidly. I’m hoping she learns, but she’s getting a lot of cross ‘nos’ due to the crying.

I feel you 😞 I am so irritated too at the moment. I feel so guilty on my older children. They're not even being naughty just loud and annoying and they bicker a lot which really grates on me because it's over the smallest and most ridiculous things. The constant telling on each other does me in 🥲😫 I feel so bad but I can't handle it some days, I find at night I get super emotional about how I've handled things, the mum guilt. I always apologize though and explain to them that mummy is super tired, emotional, irritated and that I don't mean to get cross but some days I'm just soo overwhelmed with everything

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