Working moms

I go back to work today. My LO is still waking up 2 times at night to BF. For all the moms who went back to work how are you surviving with the sleep deprivation. My plan was to be up at 5 so I can get ready before baby is up at 6/630. But he woke up at 4 .. so I nursed him. It’s 430. What’s the point of even going back to sleep 😭😭

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My son still wakes up at least twice a night to nurse. I went back to work when he was 12 weeks old, he is now 19 weeks. What I’ve had to do is stick to an early bedtime for both of us. I normally get him down to bed at 7:30pm then spend time with my partner and get into bed by 9pm. Can I ask why you want to get ready before he is up? We normally both wake up at 5:45am/6am so I nurse him again and then he hangs out with me until I have to leave for work around 7:30am! Around 7:30am he’s ready for his nap so I pass him off to my partner who is staying home with him right now.

Also I recommend a lot of coffee. SO much coffee. Lol

So you will get used to it somehow lol, I know I did. My baby wakes up sometimes, and sleeps through the night sometimes. Try to do early bed time when possible. I mess up and stay late sometimes but if I go to sleep at a decent time I actually feel great.
Do you have flexibility at work or have to be in at same time every day?

I definitely agree you’ll get used to it eventually… my middle child didn’t sleep through the night until he was 2. He woke up 3-4 times a night most during the 12-18 month transition and I just went to work on one or two hours of sleep. Waking up twice really isn’t bad at this age. I recommend getting as much ready the night before instead of in the morning… pick out an outfit and have it ready, have coffee programmed, master a 10 min hair and makeup routine and just sleep as much as you can in the morning before you absolutely HAVE to get up

Thank you for the advice ❤️

I figured I would get up at 5 so I can get myself ready. He usually wake up at 6. He takes like 30 mins to eat or so and then I have to be out of the house by 710 😵‍💫

@Michelle This is exactly what I came to say! I exclusively pump, so I'm up by 5:30am to pump before little girl wakes up at 6am. Then I get ready for work with her.... coffee in hand 😆 My fiancé watches her as well while I'm at work so I hand her off as I'm walking out the door.
And yes... so much coffee to get through the day!

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Can someone pls help i keep making this post and nobody is responding

My boyfriend booked a trip for us to go to mexico for a week as my push present. I have severe anxiety leaving my 7 month old with my mom. I know she will be in good hands but she’s exclusively breast fed for the most part but accepts bottles just fine. i have all my pumping parts packed and will pump when baby normally eats but i don’t want baby to forget me or have latch issues when i return!! any mommas ever experience this?

When does it get better?

I was crying on the phone with the perinatal mental health team today and the lovely lady, bless her, kept assuring me that it gets better. I kept telling her I hope so because people have been saying that since having my LO and it just feels like it keeps getting worse. She assured me it gets better....

Rant/WWYD

My sister (youngest, 24) has two kids, 4 & 1, and i (oldest, 30) just have my one who’s 6mo old right now, so i ask her for advice or call her to vent about things sometimes. Well im tired of her turning around and telling my other family members that I’m “losing my sh*t.” Literally have not lost my sh*t nor have i ever freaked out to her about my baby, i just call her to talk and tell her what stage my baby is in or talk through how im feeling, but she chooses to tell people that im like a complete nutcase or something which worries me that my family is going to start being judgmental about me as a mother or looking at me funny like I’m some fragile ticking time bomb.

What would you do in this situation? I’m already pretty much decided that I’ll stop telling her anything about my struggles, but I’m almost at the point where i feel like it should be confronted because she, of all people, should understand what I’m going through.

Rapid cool/ hot shot method

Sorry if this sound stupid but how are we doing the hot shot method?
Are we boiling the kettle and letting it cool a little before adding to hot flask? Then with the cool water do you boil the kettle and leave it to cool right down before putting into another flask?
My baby brain is fried trying to work out the easiest way!

Night time routine

Heya, my 3 week old daughter is currently exclusively breastfed and I’m not pumping. Can anyone recommend the best way to share the load with my partner? At the moment I’m doing all the feeds/burbs/settling and my partner is sleeping through which obviously isn’t sustainable, I’m trying to work out the best way to get him involved. Any advice very much appreciated!

i just want someone to talk to😔😔😔😔

when things get hard i have nothing not any support from my partner im convinced he doesn’t even love me anymore but thats another story
I have a 3 yo and a 2yo that are in bed sleeping only just now. I have a 1 yo that’s been sleeping from 8 o’clock to 10 o’clock. I just gave her her milk and she would’ve gone back to sleep if it wasn’t that
I lost her dummy earlier in the day when I went out
so now she won’t go back to sleep and she won’t accept any of the other dummy’s i have!😔😔and it’s 10 o’clock and I’m gonna be up until 3 o’clock with her and when she does want to go to sleep i won’t have any dummy to give her she will accept and she won’t sleep without it i just wanna cry 😔i have nobody to talk to and i feel so alone i get no support from anybody i’m so tired and i don’t feel well to top it off😔