Pregnant momma's with a toddler...

Christakim · August 2010

How are you doing this?!?!

I'm already having a hard time keeping up with her if we go to the playground or anywhere!

We mostly stay at home, read books, do arts and crafts (when I'm feeling really ambitious), and watch movies. I feel like a horrible mom, but seriously, I don't have the energy and am always pretty sick from all day sickness.

This isn't meant to be a complaint post, I just feel as if I'm not doing my job right now.

Temp6313048411121614 · August 2010

My IL's watched DS1 nearly every day towards the end of my pg when I was put on BR.

MrsWhiteonWhiteSt · August 2010

I have had pretty bad m/s. DS has watched a LOT of cartoons, I'm not going to lie.

ProwdMommy · August 2010

I feel like I am not doing what I need to be as well. I feel so tired all the time. DS will ask me to play with him and I feel so guilty if I say no. You are not the only one. Don't beat yourself up over it. I am just thankful that I get to be at home with him.

IAM4UK · August 2010

Are you a SAHM?

I am still working and DD goes full time to pre-school until 4pm everyday. I'm still doing okay with her. It's dinner that is getting pretty hard. I LOVE to cook and just don't have the energy anymore to cook.

We have a routine where DD usually helps me prepare dinner until DH gets home from work. Then we eat, play outside in our driveway for about an hour now that the weather is cooling down, come in and watch her favorite show on Sprout, bath, read books, and then its bedtime at 8pm.

Now, I am just putting together quick easy dinners and play play-doh or let her run around outside on the deck until DH comes home.

DH helps out alot on the weekends and plays with her a ton. I just keep telling myself its short term and DD will probably not even remmber me not playing with her when she was 2.5 years old. I don't even have a memory from that age.

carolina1178 · August 2010

I had ALOT of playgroups at my house LOL I couldn't keep up with ds at playground....by about 20 weeks, if I picked him up too much, my back would be on fire and everything would hurt. I just :-(

I felt awful and still do....even though now he doens't even ask me anymore, which makes me feel worse :-(

its tough....for me it never got better. I never got that 'energy' in the 2nd tri. I have felt like I have been in the 3rd tri since about 24 weeks, I hit a wall and they just kept coming.

Putting ds in a part time program was not an option so we stayed busy with playgroups or friends that I knew didn't mind if i wasn't super involved or I knew he played with without any problems. And yes he watches more tv than I would like but it is what it is : /

now i am getting to the end...i have had my inlaws over almost everyday because I just can't be on my feet that long. it hurts and then I start contracting and I stress, plus he has more fun with them because they will do just about anything he wants LOL

just take it one day at a time.....you will be ok and find other ways to spend time with her

nbptbride · August 2010

I agree, it's really hard to entertain a toddler all day long. I'm at the point where I'm opening DS's 'after the babies come' gifts because so desperate to keep him occupied. If only MIL wasn't so difficult to spend time with, I'd have her over to play with DS. Except she doesn't play, she sits in a chair and narrates as he plays. Fun, fun. It also doesn't help that he's napping less and less : ( But we'll get through it. Even if it means a little more tv than I'd like. DH has been good about working flexible hours lately and he's been taking DS to the beach, playgrounds, etc.

ougrad1 · August 2010

It's only going to get harder as you get bigger and more tired. I put Emerson in a Mother's Day Out program at a church but, the summer came and it was hard! My H ended up working out of the house so, he could help. You need to find a place she can go play with other children at lease a couple of hours, a few days a week-really.

BizEB · August 2010

I basically had people come help me once I hit about 30 weeks. I just couldn't keep up and didn't think it was fair to DS (and didn't want to go into PTL with the twins). I had sitters for awhile, then my sister came, then my mom. DH ran everything on weekends. I'd lay on the couch and talk to/watch DS but they would take him out to the park or the zoo or somewhere out of the house for a few hours each day. He watched more tv than I want to admit, too.

wonder-kitty · August 2010

I've been on a moderate bedrest for the last 2 months and it's been hard. I've felt so guilty because I can't take DD to the park or to the pool. I feel like she's missed out on a lot of fun this summer because she's stuck in the house with me. We read alot of books and she brings toys to the couch and we play. We do a few craft projects like play-doh and water paints. She can sit at the table and I can supervise from a few feet away on the couch. We also watch way more tv than I'd like, but that's just the way it's gonna be for now.

I also try and have playdates at my house. My friends understand that it's easier for me and they don't mind.

Rangergal9 · August 2010

DD and I didn't do much this summer.. we only went places when someone else could come with us because I couldn't chase after her. We also kept her in daycare two days a week so that helped. She also watched a lot of cartoons or we went shopping and she sat in the stroller.