Just wanted to send huge hugs. Totally been there. Went from being fun mum with ds and then when dd came along and never wanted to sleep, I was not only tired, but felt so guilty! I was grumpy, tired, yelled and chucked megga tanties all the time.

It was made worse when we moved countries, but then, dd got older and it did get better.

I think the suggestion above about the double pram was a good one. I did the same, which enabled me to spend time with ds, as well as going to a play group.

Now that dd is 20 months and ds is 4 (and at Kindy 4 days a week till 2pm) they play with eachother more, giving me a little break.

It did taint ds though, as he always tells me now he doesn't like babies!!

I still co-sleep with dd, and ds is finally, only recently sleeping in his own bed (we've had A LOT of upheaval with moving etc) which also helps.

I stuck some notes up around the house to remind me to be patient, not to yell etc which helped me too. Hard to do when you're so physically tired, but found if I could mentally change my attitude and the way I was reacting to the little things, the sleep deprivation was much more tolerable. I think it helped my babes too.


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