The Mid-March Mum Slump: Why You’re Tired, Cranky and Not Imagining It

You know that weird late-March fog? Not quite spring, not quite winter, not quite sane. The holidays are months away, the novelty of the new year is gone, and your energy is flatter than your forgotten pancake mix from February.

Welcome to the Mid-March Mum Slump – and no, it’s not just you.

☕ Here’s what’s happening:

• Your cortisol is confused: The season is shifting but the sun still vanishes at 5pm. That’s chaos for your body clock.

• The kids are bouncing off the walls: Spring energy. Zero patience. One million snack demands.

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• You’ve been in go-mode since Christmas: Planning, hosting, budgeting, surviving. You never really stopped.

• There’s mud. Everywhere. Why is it still muddy?!

• And you? You’re probably doing 27 things and haven’t sat down since 2022.

💡 Here’s how to ride it out (without crying into your biscuit tin):

1. Name the mood – Seriously, just admitting it’s a thing helps.

   More on burnout and the mental load

   • →Parenting Burnout Is Real
   • →Why I Stopped Apologising for the State of My House
   • →The Invisible Load of Motherhood
   • →When You’re the Default Parent and It’s Breaking You
   • →The ‘Weaponised Incompetence’ Epidemic –

2. Do one small rebellious act daily – Eat the good snacks. Ignore WhatsApp. Wear the nice perfume on a Tuesday.

3. Get outside, even in the grey – Nature doesn’t fix everything, but it does shift the vibe.

4. Say no more freely – School bake sale? Hard pass.

5. Plan one thing you’re excited about – It can be tiny. A solo coffee. A park bench. A Friday night takeaway.

6. Unfollow anyone making you feel worse – March is no time for competitive productivity.

💬 Tell me – are you feeling the Mid-March Mum Slump too?

Drop a comment if your energy is MIA and your fuse is a centimetre long. Let’s normalise not being shiny right now.