Sleep tips in the heat?

If anyone is still awake, my little one is tired but will not sleep as he’s so hot and sweaty. Bless him, his hair is wet from sweat and his room is about 30 degrees 🥺 the windows are open all day, blinds & curtains shut but the sun sits on the room from morning until night so it still gets extremely hot. I have the fan on the highest it can go but the room is just unbearable even for me sitting here. What can I do? 😅😅

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I’m in the exact same position !!! Downstairs is just about bearable but soon as you come upstairs you can feel the heat hit you half way up the stairs and it’s uncomfortably hot. I’m currently sat here with my little girl both with basically nothing on with the fan right next to bed with her watching Mickey Mouse until she falls asleep , my partner went away last night for work and is away now for 4 weeks so whenever it’s this hot at night I’m just going to be co sleeping with her and the fan right next to us on top of the duvet xxx

yes that’s exactly how it is for us and he’s so moany bless him because he wants to sleep but can’t 🥺we are also going through teething oh god, it’s not fun is it haha xx

I am not sure if it will help anyone else but I have taken my little one on a walk. Carried him round and have been able to get him cool enough to sleep. I hope you find something that helps your little ones too ❤️

Buy a portable air conditioner. It takes space at home and maybe will only be used a few days during the year, but just in these days, it saved my life. 😂

It's horrible isn't it. I would say to shut the windows in the day when it's really hot outside, then open them all when it gets cooler in the evening. Otherwise hot air is just coming inside

We’ve been setting up a travel cot in the lounge, where it’s cooler through these horrid few nights. Our upstairs is a 30 degree furnace but it’s about 25 downstairs so much easier to settle him, thankfully.

I guess that makes sense, I thought opening them would help as the room is so hot anyway 😆 guess I should try closed instead

that’s a good idea

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I think Motherhood has made me more bitter than I realized…

This is such a ramble but I don’t know where else to put it all.

I’m four months in and I don’t really have hobbies right now. I don’t do anything for myself except maybe doomscrolling or listening to a podcast while I breastfeed my baby. I used to craft and have game nights with friends. Activities that usually are at least 2 hour stretches. Now if I have an hour free my mind immediately goes to baby, or doing something in the house for baby.

And I thought I didn’t mind. Like I knew postpartum could be very mentally consuming. But I think it’s altering how I view people around me and it’s prodding at my relationship with my husband.

He spends most of his time making food for us, looking after our dogs, playing with the baby, ect. But he still has time for his hobby. Spends maybe an hour a night on it. Even adapted to using a bot for shopping for his hobby after a certain incident where we had to have a heart to heart after he left me home alone with the baby for hours during a busy workday (I work from home) to shop for his hobby.

And yet there’s like this little green eyed monster in me that rages every time I know he’s running off to start up the bot. Even though I’m the reason he does it this way.

We took a family trip last weekend to see his best friend and their kids and let them meet the baby. He brought the laptop. He’s always brought a laptop on trips and it’s never been a problem to me before. But one night we both woke up while the baby was still asleep, and he wandered out of the room. I tried to fall back asleep but couldn’t. So I went to the kitchen to try having something warm to drink to settle me. And he was there at the table running the bot from his laptop. I flipped out at him. But there really wasn’t reason to. It’s not like I needed help with the baby and he was ignoring me. He wasn’t avoiding our friends. He was just awake and unable to sleep and found something to do with his time. Yet my snap reaction was “why the hell would you do this on a family trip?”

I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s the less complete sleep from baby’s middle of the night feed? My brain being just consumed by baby? Maybe I’m not as over that shopping incident as I thought? But I’m just so annoyed at his hobby right now. The green eyed monster thinks “you could be using that time differently” but realistically to do what exactly??? Stare at our baby in the dark???

I spent probably an hour apologizing to him after I snapped. And he’s of course hurt and frustrated because I said some very mean things in the moment.

I don’t want to be this jealous, angry person. But I also don’t know how to find time for myself in this right now outside of basic hygiene. It’s like I’ve forgotten how to be myself, even if just for an hour.

Maybe I need a therapist.

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