So I’m a SAHM of a 4 year old boy who we started homeschool preschool this year with, and an almost 14 month old girl who is a little boob monster. She’s currently cutting her top 4 teeth and it’s majorly affected her sleep. We practice gentle/responsive parenting (no CIO- which is not a judgement or shaming towards anyone who does things differently), and this little girl went from waking every 3-4 hours at night and only sometimes needing to nurse to settle, to waking every 30-60 minutes all night long and demanding to nurse every time. We are going on week 4 of me getting 1-2 hours of sleep in a 24 hour period. I’m exhausted and starting to really feel the negative things that happen to you when you’re so sleep deprived lol. I know it’s teething and it will pass. I do give her stuff for the pain but it doesn’t make her sleep better unfortunately.

Anyways last night was so tough as my son is recovering from being sick and I basically walked back and forth between both their rooms all night long, got maybe 45 minutes of sleep. I’ve drunk an entire pot of coffee and it’s done absolutely nothing. I’m a zombie today and I cannot function 😅 I threw stuff in the crock pot for dinner and I’ve spent most of the day just folding laundry on the couch whilst watching TV and of course I’m still feeding the kids and caring for them etc but not actively engaging/playing with them like I usually do. My brain won’t even work to that point.

I honestly feel so bad. I feel like I should be more present with them and I feel bad that I’ve literally just zoned out today but goodness I’m so tired. Someone tell me this gets easier eventually 😅