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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn’t read the article, but I also find the pp who is obsessed with putting down all of us weak mothers who find motherhood very hard annoying and off topic. I guarantee that lady had easy kids.

Just commenting to say touched out is so real. It’s visceral. Knowing intellectually the difficult details of parenthood before you have a child simply does not prepare you for what it feels like to be a stay at home mom to a child who is so high needs and sensitive the paid help quit and who has only contact napped since birth and who still wants to be held and nursed like a newborn (I don’t let her but she makes it clear that’s her preference). Touched out doesn’t even begin to describe how done I am with being touched most days. Months. Years.[/quote]

I’m not a SAHM and I actually have paid help but I feel this in my bones. I’ve done so many things to cultivate breaks for myself, and on the whole I think I get more downtime than most moms. And yet it just never enough. Even when I’ve orchestrated time alone, without my kids, away from DH and my house, I STILL feel like it’s hard to go back to them. I feel like I’m going to need years of good sleep and alone time before I feel anywhere near back to my baseline or some kind of normal.[/quote]

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