What part of the day do you dread?

[catty]

well i hate nappy changing time because Lucas absolutely flips EVERY.SINGLE.TIME

Sometimes we both have to pin him down, iv tried everything in the book, every family member has tried noone can get him to relax and just get it done. He then cries for quite awhile after, it makes me a bit sad as i dont like doing it to him but it has to be done ?!?!?

But i actually didnt really enjoy bedtime, after a busy day it was just so stressful, both needing things at the same time and both very tired, so if avoided that by getting a little evening job

 

[pinklightbulb]

Bedtime. Or in Liam's case, bedtime and naptime.

 

[sequeena]

Every part

No, the worst bit is night time as he doesn't sleep. In fact he's wide awake now. Every night. When all I want to do is rest he still has bags and bags of energy. A strict routine from sleep clinic hasn't worked. After this we go to melatonin.

 

[pompeyvix]

If she has a nap, then the part of the day I dread the most is the aftermath of this nap. She's so so grumpy, upset, sensitive and clingy. I literally cannot do anything and it can take her a while to snap out of it. Although no nap days are more full on, I honestly prefer them as I really struggle dealing with her grumps when she does have a sleep.

Aside from that, there is nothing else I really dread. Touch wood - she's a pretty easy toddler & good sleeper (for now!)

 

[Larkspur]

When they both need to be put down for a nap at the same time. I mean, I love it when they are both asleep at the same time, but the palaver of getting two tired kids off to sleep without one stopping the other from settling means I really earn the break!

 

[Natsku]

Every part

No, the worst bit is night time as he doesn't sleep. In fact he's wide awake now. Every night. When all I want to do is rest he still has bags and bags of energy. A strict routine from sleep clinic hasn't worked. After this we go to melatonin.

Hope the melatonin helps

 

[housewifey]

The weeks when OH is on backshift and trying to cook dinner while LO just wants to play and trust me- I want to play but dinner needs done so I have to say in a minute in a minute and it makes her sad and me

Hats off to all you single mums/ military wives/ husbands work away for weeks or months at a time! I don't know how you do it all!

 

[Button#]

When I have to get up, DS is a morning person and I'm really not. Recently he tries to drag me out of bed saying 'mummy downstairs, put Christmas tree lights on'

 

[sbl]

Dinner time is either a breeze or an absolute nightmare.
She'll only eat for me.

 

[Lady_Bee]

Evenings. I hate doing the bedtime routine alone. It's just so much easier with two pairs of hands! So evenings during the week are very frustrating for me, not to mention lonely as my husband hasn't been getting home until after 11pm lately.

Nights are a close second. Lol. Benjamin is usually up several times and I am just exhausted. Please sleep through soon baby boy!

 

[KatieB]

No nap today, refused in buggy and refused in cot. Now 4.10 pm and we've had screaming sessions and fighting with Louis, now Alex is about to zonk out, rush rush rush to do dinner and get him to bed early. Then of course he'll be awake about 6am if I'm lucky, blah.

 

[RaspberryK]

Waking up, just because I'm not a morning person, particularly when it's a day I need to be somewhere early/preschool and ds will no doubt sleep late, then on days we don't have to get up he will be up early!
Xx

 

[Wilsey]

I used to find bed time quite stressful but now it's the morning's I go to work and they go to daycare (three mornings a week). Only because there is limited time to get everything done so when he kicks up a huge fuss about his nappy and it's taking ages, I can feel my stress levels rising. Now I'm ok with evenings because I just think 'eventually they'll fall asleep'

 

[x__amour]

Waking up. I'm dead exhausted and DD wants breakfast the second she wakes up whilst I'd prefer cuddles giving myself time to wake up.

 

[twobecome3]

the half hour post-nap. shes absolutely miserable, I have to sit on the couch with her, if I need to pee or move in anyway she screams the house down.

 

[Menelly]

The two hours or so before bedtime. She's starting to get cranky, but it isn't bedtime yet. She's nearly always whiny and clingy. I'm practically begging her to EAT ANYTHING. I've had her in my lap roughly 75% of the day and I just want her to *stop touching me* for 10 min dammit! I swear, those two hours or so are longer than the other 22 combined. <sigh>

 

[KittyVentura]

Either 8-9am morning preschool rush or sort of 3-5pm where we want to go out and do stuff but can't right now xx

 

[kissesandhugs]

I agree the mornings when I have work and he goes to daycare (once a week thankfully) otherwise I wake him up, change his diaper, get coat on, thrown in car seat (not literally) and off to gmas we go! But besides that I'd have to say bath time. I have no specific reason why but I absolutely HATE giving him baths. It's such a chore for us even though he doesn't give us a hard time. Jeeze makes me sound lazy Used to be bedtime before we weaned from nursing. Bedtime is fairly easy now but the nights when he fights it is a total nightmare...

 

[steele]

If I need to go to the supermarket. It's a guaranteed stressful occasion. Lugging him in and out the car seat, the fight to get him in the trolley, the whining on the way round and finally putting it all away with him round my feet. I'm exhausted just thinking about it

 

[jd83]

The time I get home from work until dinner is over. DS2 is hungry as soon as we get home, and whines at my legs until I'm done cooking. SOmetimes I can distract him with something to play with, other times he's too hungry to be distracted (despite havign a snack at the sitter's house before I pick them up). And then the actual meal, DS1 whines about because he is picky and rarely likes anything I fix. So yeah, I'm glad when that whole portion of the day is over.