You Know You're Tired When...

alliebjerk · December 2012

So, working mommas.. How do you keep it all together?

I asked my husband at dinner tonight "what is the most tired you've ever been?" beautiful grammar gem, right there. And he launched into this story about college and parties and working... And.. I responded, "the most tired I've ever been, is right now." I have a 14 month old who just started sporadically sleeping through the night. Up until a month ago he woke up twice a night. I think I'm still recovering.. We are still nursing a couple times a day and I work full time. I'm dizzy, tingly, and zoned out. And apparently quite whiney. ; Since my husband doesn't seem to grasp the concept of being tired.. I know all of you amazing working moms will.

So tell me, when was the "most tired" tiredest? More tireder? ; moment in your lives?

skibunny59 · December 2012

Right now. I work full time. My 9 month old all of a sudden is getting up multiple times a night to comfort nurse to put herself back to sleep. And my DH works crazy long hours and leaves ass early in the morning for work (4:30AM) so unfortunately I don't get a whole lot of help from him.

alliebjerk · December 2012

Ha! I can so relate!

alliebjerk · December 2012

I love the meme that said "Sleep like a baby? I want to sleep like a husband!" Although I shouldn't bash the man too much, he's been amazing, but I've taken the brunt of the sleep deprivation!

ppants · December 2012

The worst was when I returned to work and my twins were still eating twice a night each. I never knew I could so sleep deprived and still function. It seemed like if I could get one hour interrupted I would be golden! The good news is that time only lasted a few months.

Netty_3 · December 2012

Probably the first week of being a mom. Paranoia, awe, and actually being needed made for one tired mama.

katieh1017 · December 2012

For the first 8 weeks Lillian was a colicky baby with relfux, was mspi and just high maintenance with crying all the time and little sleep. When she did sleep it was only on me. Mix that and PPD, not good physically or mentally. I was so tired I often wondered how I would get through it.

Besides that, back in Ocotber I had a stomach virus for several days and the first 48 hours of it were hellll. I was so sick and so tired I couldn't even think straight.

skibunny59 · December 2012

alliebjerk:
I love the meme that said "Sleep like a baby? I want to sleep like a husband!" Although I shouldn't bash the man too much, he's been amazing, but I've taken the brunt of the sleep deprivation!

Ha! This is funny but so true.

Jessys_Girl · December 2012

ClaryPax:
There was a whole stretch in there when I was back to work but DS wasn't sleeping. I had about 2-3 months of 4-5 hours of sleep a night, and constantly had to tell myself that the most important part of the day was not to accidentally crash my car because I was so exhausted.

When DD was 6 weeks old, we moved. (Please, don't ever move with a newborn...it is the most horrible experience of my life).

I was driving a load of stuff to the new house with DD in the car with me. We were pulling up to a stoplight and I had my foot on the brake/stopping.....And I fell asleep at the wheel. I rear ended the guy in front of me (thankfully it wasn't a real bad crash because I was in process of stopping at the time...but still).....

THAT is the most tired I have ever been.

Jessys_Girl · December 2012

ClaryPax:
There was a whole stretch in there when I was back to work but DS wasn't sleeping. I had about 2-3 months of 4-5 hours of sleep a night, and constantly had to tell myself that the most important part of the day was not to accidentally crash my car because I was so exhausted.

When DD was 6 weeks old, we moved. (Please, don't ever move with a newborn...it is the most horrible experience of my life).

I was driving a load of stuff to the new house with DD in the car with me. We were pulling up to a stoplight and I had my foot on the brake/stopping.....And I fell asleep at the wheel. I rear ended the guy in front of me (thankfully it wasn't a real bad crash because I was in process of stopping at the time...but still).....

THAT is the most tired I have ever been.

cindybaf · December 2012

The tired I feel now is day after day exhaustion. I feel like at the beginning, I had some sort of adrenaline kick in after the birth that made me get up and feed the baby. Now that both are sttn it's the day in and day out of crying babies, tantrums from my two year old, work, laundry, breastfeeding, baths, driving to daycare, sore muscles, trying to keep the house from turning into a scene from hoarders kind of exhaustion. I don't know how I'm doing it. All I know is at this point I let the kids CIO if they do randomly wake up because I physically can't make it to their rooms and honestly I don't even hear them anymore! Luckily they sttn but I know teething is just around the corner for dd2.... It never ends!

Jelliebean1982 · December 2012

We had my MIL watch the baby the first year of his life. I'm pretty sure she had him sleeping all day long and wasn't feeding him often enough. For months DS woke up around 8x a night to eat. Combine that with an older child who needs you and teaching a class full of 29 active third graders and I was done most days. The best part of it all was that I was so exhausted I couldn't figure out what my MIL was doing wrong that my baby wouldn't sleep. Once I was on summer break and realized she had him sleeping from 8:00 to 11:30 and then 1:30 to 4:00 I was pretty ticked off.

cltk12 · December 2012

Right now! Ds just went down to one feeding a night and DH said....how can you be tired, you're getting more sleep now. I said, the past 8 months are catching up to me! He gets up with ds a lot too and said, ya, I guess you're right, I'm tired too.

laurakaz13 · December 2012

I would say the first 3 months of LO's life. She's slept very well since then. But waking up to nurse her several times per night and being home, feeling isolated during my maternity leave was the hardest for me.

The funniest thing I did thinking back was putting the egg whites I was about to scramble into my coffee by mistake, instead of milk. I sat down and started bawling b/c I was so exhausted and upset by this. DH had to rescue me that day or I would have lost it.

Luckily my DH parents 50/50 with me, so aside from nursing he understands serious sleep deprivation as well.

alliebjerk · December 2012

The first time my son slept through the night, my husband said "well, you must feel totally rested now!" to me that next morning. Ha! Yes, darling. One night of uninterrupted sleep after a year.. And all my exhaustion and stress is gone. :P

aeh72 · December 2012

Aside from generally being "the most tired I've ever been in my life," my most tired moment just happened last week. DS has started to have a very difficult time falling alseep at bedtime and on a night where it took him over an hour to fall asleep, about two hours later, the power went out in our house, which meant the monitor would not work, which meant, I was not going to sleep a wink in our bed. So I trekked it down the hall to sleep in the guest room right next to his room so I could hear him and then proceeded to spend the next hour wide wake trying to hear him. I finally fell alseep but not at all soundly. The power came back on around 6:40 a.m., just in time for me to have to get up at 7 to get ready for work and get DS ready for daycare. All day I kept thinking about what time I would be able to get back into bed and how happy I was that that night was going to be DH's turn to stay up with DS!

Mrs_Lady · December 2012

right now adjusting to mommyhood. not back at work yet

littleredfish · December 2012

The beginning. My body was used to getting 7-8 hours of perfectly uninterrupted sleep and DD had to be woken up every 2 hours to eat because of jaundice. It was far too much for her apparently and made her very pukey and gassy which made her wake up more (and angry). Once we stopped waking her to eat she only ate every 3-4 hours and did so much better (plus now my body is in the swing of things and she only wakes up once so we're back on track).

I get what you mean about DH though. He sleeps through everything so he never woke up in the beginning. So many nights I'd be on the verge of tears, feeding an angry baby who didn't want to be fed, looking at him sleeping peacefully and I'd think of reaching over and punching him right in his quiet, sleeping face. lol

AsOctoberFalls · December 2012

ClaryPax:
There was a whole stretch in there when I was back to work but DS wasn't sleeping. I had about 2-3 months of 4-5 hours of sleep a night, and constantly had to tell myself that the most important part of the day was not to accidentally crash my car because I was so exhausted.

Same here. He didn't start sleeping for more than a few hours at a time until he was 9 months old, when we sleep trained. We tried Ferber, but the checks just upset him more... so, we did straight up CIO with no checks. It took one night. He's STTN ever since.

I felt awful letting him cry, but at the same time, I was scared because I was dozing off at the wheel almost every day on the way home from work. It was a ROUGH 9 months.

carlab44 · December 2012

I went back to work when DD was 4 months old. Conveniently (sarcasm) she also went through a sleep regression at the same time (which was laughable because she wasn't really a "good" sleeper before then). Between 4-7 months she got up between 8-12 times a night. Some nights every 45 minutes. DS went through the same thing but I didn't return to work with him until he was almost 8 months old.

JennaNAaron · December 2012

Either when we first had both kids here we're foster parents and went from sleeping all we wanted to up all night with 2 kids or when I went back to work in August and was still up all night with 2 kids.

PayolaCrayola · December 2012

littleredfish:

I get what you mean about DH though. He sleeps through everything so he never woke up in the beginning. So many nights I'd be on the verge of tears, feeding an angry baby who didn't want to be fed, looking at him sleeping peacefully and I'd think of reaching over and punching him right in his quiet, sleeping face. lol

THIS. I still think this because even though I work and he stays at home i have always been the one who gets up with her. He tried but if she knows im anywhere in the vicinity she will only want me. I hope she sttn soon!

jnealet · December 2012

D2 has just started to consistently sleep all night and I'm coming out of the haze of sleep deprivation and realizing how much stuff I did wrong/messed up over the past year. It's amazing how much a year of broken sleep affects the brain and body. And DH did get up some with D2 but she would just howl with him, so it was a choice between listening to her scream or get up myself.

KathrynMD · December 2012

this post is making me happy I sleep trained DD at 4.5 months.

LoCarb · December 2012

alliebjerk:
I love the meme that said "Sleep like a baby? I want to sleep like a husband!"

LOL.

I was extremely tired in the NB phase. I was also the most angry, irritable and unhappy (marriage wise) during this phase too as a result of sleep deprivation. When DD2 came along I opted for elective surgery under twilight anesthesia just so I could have uninterrupted sleep and H would have to take care of the LO's.

MammaBear81 · December 2012

I'd have to say I was the most "sleep deprived" during first trimester. I was so sick, couldn't eat/drink.sleep etc, that I could barely function. I had to have a pump (similar to an insulin pump) to give me anti nausea meds just so I could keep bread and water down.

I can say that even when the babies were little I wasn't sleep deprived. DH and I took turns when the babies were little (honestly I don't get why any DH WOULDN'T take turns taking care of their child) and as the night feedings got fewer and farther between we each got longer stretches of sleep.

Sleep is VERY important to our family, the kids sleep 10-12 hours at night, an the babies take one 2-3 hour nap during the day, I can't imagine what life would be like without sleep.

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