8 months of no sleep has made me really bitter!

[suzanne108]

Right, I realise this is really self centred but I can't handle other people (except other mums) saying they are tired. I get really wound up and feel like telling them exactly how tired I am.

The amount of updates on Facebook with people saying they are tired REALLY annoys me. Especially people who have a really easy life and have just missed out on maybe a couple of hours sleep - I can't deal with it. I feel like commenting saying "YOU CAN'T BE AS FRICKIN TIRED AS ME!!" but that would be rather irrational lol.

I even got annoyed at a pair of PJs in New Look the other day because the slogan was something about being tired

No sleep has made me go doolally I think. When did I become so selfish?!

 

[Seraphim]

I have found myself in a little of this too

 

[Emma1980]

I have a good sleeper and i am still tired so god only knows how you feel, hope it gets better for you soon, dont hold back on FB tell them what you think cause some drama! xx

 

[MrsT&Ben]

Me Me Me! I even go as far as to ask them why and then tell them how much sleep i haven't had. Get particularly bad with hubby.... Yes I know he works all day but I have to look after our boy! I'm so glad its not just me

 

[Reedy]

Same here :wave:
when people tell me they are tired they get the most evil look possible

I honestly dont think you know what tired is until you have a child that refuses to sleep lol x

 

[daniandbaby]

I was always tired when kye was younger was up 3 or 4 times a night, now he sleeps through 11 hours a night and I am still always tired!!!!! I know how u feel when he wasn't sleeping through I was a wreck, Now I get 7-8 hours a sleep and I still have to take a nap in the day, I dont think its the nights alone that makes people tired, its the days, looking after them, cleaning the house, cooking etc, People that say it gets easier...please tell me when?lol

 

[dani_tinks]

Im constantly tired even though i'm lucky in that Jacob does sleep so you really do have my absolute sympathy. I did actually used to snap at people when we had sleepless nights, I was very much a witch!!

 

[MNORBURY]

Me too, I really want to punch my hubbys face in when he stays downstairs having a few beers comes to bed at 1am then sleeps through lo waking several times and has the nerve to say the next day he is tired.... Grrrrr

One of my friends on facebook was complaining she ONLY had 6 hours sleep, i would give anything for a full 6 hours straight sleep so I told her so lol x

 

[PB&J]

I'm exactly the same!
My little sis is pregnant and keeps saying she's tired, to which I say "just you wait!". She loves her lie-ins and I am always telling her to make the most of it - even though these are the things that really annoyed me when I was pregnant!

 

[smokey]

I feel your pain hun, I havnt had more then 2 hours of unbroken sleep (4-5 hours a night in total) in over a year now.
Even when I was prgnant he would have me up every 2 hours either to pee or booting me in the ribs or laying on a nerve so I had realy bad spine pains.
And now hes going through a tough time at night waking up crying all the time.

The last straw was this morning and I snapped at hubby because he moaned he was tired and wanted an hour lay in (he works flexy hours) when I asked if he could feed Brian this morning because I was shattered after being up with him 4 times during the night and he hadnt settled till 1am in the first place.
Hubby doesnt get up during the night because he is dead to the world when asleep so he hasnt a clue and has unbroken sleep every night, so I realy dont give a sh*t that he only got 7 hours of sleep and is still tired.

Even when Brian does sleep through the night my bladder has me up every 2 hours its not fair

 

[pinklightbulb]

Mine doesn't sleep through yet either but I get 6-7 hours broken sleep. More than a lot of mums so I'm lucky in that way but I do miss unbroken stretches. Teething sucks!

 

[suzanne108]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one! (Well, I wish we were all getting sleep but you know what I mean).

I was afraid I was going to get lots of replies telling me what a selfish person I am!

 

[hivechild]

You're not selfish. I am an insomniac so i knew tired before i got pregnant and had Ronan, but I never knew what being tired for an entire year was. I haven't had a full night's sleep since i was around 6 months pregnant and the night time loo trips kicked in. Even on the nights when he sleeps well, I can't.

It's hard to see an end in sight sometimes, and while someone's tiredness is very real and very acute because they missed a few hours, it's just not the same.

I suffer from chronic and persistent back pain, so every day for the past 17 years i have been in some degree of pain, from agonizing and unable to walk to just achy and stiff. I have to remind myself that the pain someone feels because they slept wrong, or pulled something is still real pain they're feeling. I guess it's kind of like that with tiredness as well. For whatever it's worth, you're not alone and there are billions of parents who know how you feel.

 

[_Vicky_]

oohhhh I am like this too - we were out yesterday and some bloke was saying - I only got a lie in till 10am this morning WTF - I did pull him on it but apparently him getting up at 6am for work all week means he is more knackered than me HANG ON MATE 7 MONTH OLD TWINS 24/7 orrrr working 9-5 sorry I have done both and this wins hands donw a million times!!! oohh I think I might be bitter too xxxxxxxx

 

[hivechild]

oohhhh I am like this too - we were out yesterday and some bloke was saying - I only got a lie in till 10am this morning WTF - I did pull him on it but apparently him getting up at 6am for work all week means he is more knackered than me HANG ON MATE 7 MONTH OLD TWINS 24/7 orrrr working 9-5 sorry I have done both and this wins hands donw a million times!!! oohh I think I might be bitter too xxxxxxxx

...and there's the reminder that someone else always has it worse off than you do!

 

[L-C]

omg me too, I'm really bad at the moment and the worst is when then in laws get concerned about Daddy, who sleeps in the spare room and has to ask what sort of night I had!!! obviously we're keeping him up....

and the other one is when you do once in a blue moon get say 4 hours in a row - people say you must be feeling better - um no I'm still shattered actually it doesn't make up for the past four months....

 

[MissBroody]

Well you're not alone hun. I too have become selfish, bitter and resentful. I HATE HATE HATEEEE it when friends (with no children) come round and its how are you etc etc and they say ''god, im knackered!!'' I think YOU'RE knackered?!?!? Try having a baby who gets up 3 times a night and takes hours to re-settle then is hard work during the day!! OH's sister when H was a few days old came down to visit and I was a ZOMBIE - H had been up ALLL night and she said ''im so tired today, didnt get back from the cinema til 11'' and I could have killed her LOL! I felt like saying ''you dont know what tired is!!'' I just said ''hehe, wait til you have kids!''. And I'm also a hater of people with no kids who update their statuses as being they're tired - im sure they are, but until youve had a baby you don't know just how TIRED really feels lmao
xx

 

[emmad339]

oohhhh I am like this too - we were out yesterday and some bloke was saying - I only got a lie in till 10am this morning WTF - I did pull him on it but apparently him getting up at 6am for work all week means he is more knackered than me HANG ON MATE 7 MONTH OLD TWINS 24/7 orrrr working 9-5 sorry I have done both and this wins hands donw a million times!!! oohh I think I might be bitter too xxxxxxxx

Totally agree with you. When I used to work full time I used to come home every day feeling shattered after a day behind a desk in the office. I didn't know how easy I had it because raising twins is the hardest job I've ever done. I'm lucky that they are excellent sleepers and have been since they were 6 weeks old but they are completely exhausting during the day. Trying to look after them pair and keep the house looking clean and tidy, then working all weekend is so tiring. I have a firend who is unemployed and sleeps all day then has the nerve to tell me she's shattered - does my head in!!!!!

 

[redpoppy]

My bitterness come out differently. I got annoyed at people not taking advantage of the sleep available to them.

I had a friend come and stay and every day he's ask us to wake him earlyish and I'd refuse and then he'd stay up till really late and try and get up early and I'd get really annoyed at him. What's his problem? Was he trying to rub it in? Hmmmm???!!!?? Hmmmm??!?!?

 

[Rebaby]

You're not alone, i too am very guilty of "You're tired?! YOU'RE TIRED?! NO! I AM TIRED!"

OH and i joke that in our house it becomes a bit of a competition- who has the "right" to be tired? OH working full time nights or me working part-time days but on "night duty" with Toby

He says "I am not saying i am MORE tired than you, just that I AM TIRED FULL STOP" but when i am in a certain mood, as far as i am concerned only one person is allowed to be tired and that is ME!

Childless friends who are "tired" or "busy" bug the crap out of me. I don't so much mind pregnant friends who are tired because i remember how genuinely knackered i felt at times, and also because i remember how annoying it was when people would say "Just wait until baby gets here then you'll be tired!" (Argh, shut up!)