Posted by abbeyej on 23:03 Dec 23
In Reply to: How can this be? My 7 week old ds is sleeping better at night, yet I am more exhausted than ever! Hormones? Any ideas/experience? TIA posted by d4pw in So.FLA
And it all hits you when you have the opportunity to give into it. If you were exhausted from giving birth and then sleep-deprived for two months, you could have just "pushed through" because you had no choice. Now that your body finally has the chance to relax a bit, you're *feeling* it, even though the exhaustion was there all along.
That, and hormones. ;o) Also, are you getting enough iron? Drinking enough water? Sleeping enough when baby sleeps? Are you consuming too much sugar or caffeine? (Sometimes I do this when I'm trying to get through a rough patch, then realize later how much of a cycle of put myself into...)