Hi ladies,

My little boy is 11 weeks and 5 days old and he’s the most precious thing to ever happen to me. Lately however, I just feel like I can’t cope. My husband is in the army and they have deployed him to Poland for 6 months from when Hunter was 8 weeks old so he’s going to be around 8 month next time he sees his daddy in the flesh.

Since my husband going, I just feel like I can’t cope with everything. Juggling our two dogs (terrier and lurcher) so they need walking every day, cleaning them, looking after my little boy, trying to keep up with all the housework as well as everything else. My mam has him on a Friday night for me but I drop him off at 8pm and the time I get home, do housework it’s time to go to sleep and pick him up the next morning.

My friends are texting and ringing me and I just watch my phone ring until it goes off. I don’t have the energy to even speak to them and i t’s horrible because I used to be sociable. I can feel myself snapping at family when they ring me because I’m just that stressed then they ring and I just snap because I have a million things to go. I haven’t slept in bed for 2 weeks I’ve been on the couch because Hunter falls asleep then the time I finish sorting things I don’t want to disturb him to take him upstairs.

I’m not looking for sympathy in the slightest; I just posted this to try and get a little bit of weight off my shoulders.

Has anyone experienced anything like this before? I just feel like I’m on the verge of a breakdown, I keep tearing up and I’m just at a loss some days.