Nap time

How does everyone wind their baby down for a nap? I’m at my wits end trying to get my boy to nap, he gets himself so upset. Other than feeding him, what else could be done to chill him out so he feels like he wants to nap?

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Following as I could of writ this my self.

Wrote*

My baby is always taken to same place and environment
Lights off
Red Ligjt on
White noise
Bed time blankets that smell of baby night time spray
And then she knows haha!
Even if I’m like in shopping centre I make sure it feels the same x

No help, but I'm the same! My boy has driven me mad today with his naps. He shows signs he's tired but just refuses to go down.

I have a 4 year old who would only contact nap until she was about 1. My 4 month old refuses to nap anywhere other than on me too. I put him in a sling and let him sleep on me while I carry on with life 🤷‍♀️

what is baby night time spray? Have never heard of it! Thanks

Unfortunately he won’t sleep on me or dad so contact napping isn’t the answer for us. Wonder if maybe we’re forcing too many naps and we need maybe just 3 longer ones but the problem is he will only go down for 30 ish minutes. Maybe we need to increase his wake windows? I just don’t know what the answer is. We use white noise, a mobile, a blackout blind, cuddles before, feed before, we’ve tried so much

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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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