My son is 5 months tomorrow and fights his sleep so badly. He’s been fighting it all yesterday and today and his sleep been messed up since he been 4 months I am exhausted and I cry because it’s extremely hard to put him to sleep

And for him to stay sleep. It’s so frustrating and exhausting

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My baby is doing the same thing from teething. I haven’t found the thing that will make her go to sleep besides dream feeding or laying on me. But the only thing that has helped me mentally is that one day they’ll never lay on you again or seek your comfort or need you as much as they do now everything is so temporary and moves so fast that everything we’re going through won’t last forever and one day you’ll forget all about it so I just try to enjoy the time we have now even if it is hard for me it’s probably harder for them

If you have anyone in your life you could also ask them to watch baby for a few hrs even in your home while you nap or even just take time for yourself and do absolutely nothing

I looked it up and they said babies should self soothe themselves sometimes to gts and I been tryna do that. It’s so hard

I wish girl

My baby would do the same thing and i thought it was because we both had Covid but as soon as she was symptom free i decided to sleep train her.. Best decision I’ve made! I love her but she was so dependent on me she wouldn’t soothe herself. Now if she can put her paci in her mouth herself she will and go back to sleep

It is sooo hard i hope he starts sleeping better for you! I’ll share if I find anything that works for us

you think he’s sick?

PLEASE DO

No not at all i just think he might need to learn how to self soothe like my daughter did.. she would scream when i would try to rock her to sleep and while i was sick it was hard to do so once i was better i made sure to sleep train her so if i get sick again she will know how to sleep on her own and i could get a break

Sometimes if you change up the way you put them to sleep from the original way it can help. I know my baby is a cuddler and used to like the rocking chair but now I have to pat his butt and slightly rock him to sleep. The sound of running water also soothes him he calms down to the sound of the running water in my bath or the shower running.

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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?

Postpartum

I’m only 3 days postpartum (FTM) and already have extremely bad anxiety. I’m crying every night, as I think of another night of no sleep. My baby will not settle in his cot, he cries every moment we put him down unless in his chair rocker. So me and my partner are having to alternate after 3/4 hours of being awake with him downstairs. I’m trying everything to get him to settle. It’s a load of overwhelming stress. I’m 23, I was desperate for a baby and now I have one and feel completely useless. I miss it just being me and my partner.

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....

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!

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!

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.