Exhausted!!

I know how you feel. When we are chasing around a little ones all of the time AND trying to maintain a home, I think sometimes we forget to take care of ourselves. It is SO easy to not eat right and not exercise. And without that, are bodies try to save all of the fuel (food) for energy that we do take in as a "survival" mechanism.
Consider eating 4 to 5 small NUTRITIOUS meals a day. Also taking a B6 vitamin after breakfast and then again after lunch. B6 helps our bodies metabolize food for energy.
It isn't instant, but with consistency it will give you more energy and motivation. Who knows, you may even loose a couple of pounds while you are at it.
One more thing, if you get bad PMS, the B6 is great for easing that tension as well.
Good Luck and hang in there,
M. :-D

Well, for one, it would help if your son, and therefore you, could sleep through the night. I would cut out the drinks at night. For most children, this is just a habit that they get into. Most people, including children, do not need drinks at night. My son is 3 and has never needed drinks at night. We've only offered it to him when he was sick. He sleeps through the night every night and has done so since he was 3 months old. I think when parents give in to demands from children at night, that's when you have many wakings during the night, every night. Until you learn to stop giving into his demands, he won't learn to sleep through the night. You've got to put your foot down and he'll give it up eventually. Until then, not getting an uninterrupted night's sleep can definitely cause you to be tired all day. There's a special snoring spray that is sold at CVS (don't know if it's approved for children, but it's worth looking into) that mama's on here have advised about because their hubby's snore. Maybe that can help your son.

Yes, sleep when he sleeps. Take B100 Vitamin. If you have to put the vitamins on your toilet to remember, do it. and take 1000 mg ofv vitamin C a day. 500 at a time. and pray!

Get your thyroid checked and make sure they use the newer lab ranges for TSH (it was reduced from 5.0 to 3.0), so there are many people they may be borderline hypothyroid that aren't being treated. Pregnancy/childbirth can often trigger a thyroid disorder. The symptoms you describe are classic hypo symtpoms being tired all the time and lacking a normal zest for life or enjoyment of activities.
Also, if vitamins helped, you really should take them. Put them somewhere that you can't forgot (on your place at the table where you eat breakfast, by the coffeemaker, etc.) Many of us are deficient in key vitamins such as B vitamins and Iron. You should also get your doctor to check your ferritn. Low iron can also cause the problems you describe.

Have you thought about a preschool or MDO a couple of days a week? Sounds like you could both benefit:)
Blessings,
E.

Maybe some of these ideas are doable?:
Find more rambunctious 2 year olds for him to play with and use up some more energy!? :) buy him a little trampoline and have him do cannonball tucks - counting to see how many he can do in a row (I used to teach preschoolers, and this REALLY makes them tired, and they usually engage in the counting with excitement)

Check out with your doctor or midwife - make sure you don't have an underlying health problem. Look into whether you have a candida problem.

Hire help if you can afford it, just to play with him in the house from 2-4 so you can sleep.

Know that it really passes - and that he won't hold a grudge against you if you don't!

M.