Work and baby

Girl, I feel you. I need to make time for myself, to do things I enjoy. Instead of binge scrolling.

I can relate to this 100%. The only thing that keeps me sane is that we developed a sleep routine so my daughter is asleep by 7 every night. She’s not a good sleeper at all so I still have to wake several times in the night, but at least I have a few hours before bed to binge watch my shows.

Don’t feel guilty. You’re not alone, and it’s normal to miss pieces of your life before ❤️

I’ve also never been away from my daughter to be able to enjoy a brunch or night out. It’s hard sometimes. I’m here if you ever need to rant!

it’s to the point where I feel myself getting frustrated with my husband because I envy that he doesn’t have to reach over 50xs a night to put in the pacifier and snores away. He’s helpful in so many ways don’t get me wrong…but the lack of sleep is killing me.

thank you 😊

Try playing with pacifiers in the daytime so baby learns to put back in mouth themselves..then place multiple pacifiers in the crib so baby has a good chance to find one!

I felt exactly like you feel so I knew something needed to change.

Once baby started sleeping 12 hours with no feeds, I felt like a new person.

I am by no means a sleep coach, but I can share what I did with my baby if you DM me.

I relate to this so hard. I’m a kindergarten teacher, and my husband works early and long shifts so I’m the one who gets her ready for the day and occasionally get her ready for bed. I have to come home and wash my pump parts, wash the bottles for the next day and then pull out milk. That’s before doing any chores or anything too. My husband helps but he can only do much too bc he only gets one day off. I keep telling myself this is just a season but man am I tired.

I always worried about placing multiple in the crib what if he rolls over them and sleeps on it. Is that not uncomfortable?

it’s truly the most challenging part that no one really mentions before having kids. It makes me wonder why ppl go in and have so many more.

I get that. My husband works overnights so I’m also the one who wakes up with my daughter all night, and her room is upstairs and ours is downstairs so I feel like I get a workout in every night lol. It’s very exhausting. What are your thoughts on sleep training? My baby is a HORRIBLE napper and not a great night sleeper so I did it for a few nights and it worked amazingly. Our pediatrician even approved it. But the. I gave up because I was sad seeing her cry, but I may do it again and just shorten the timers for checking in.

I did sleep training at 4 months and he was sleeping through the night. Then one day we gave him the pacifier to sleep all day because he was fussy and it’s been a nightmare since then. I do plan on doing it again once he gets through teething.

I can only speak for my baby, but it is not an issue for us. They are very mobile at this age, so my thought process is if it was uncomfortable, he would move or would not be able to sleep.

He sleeps like a dream with a bunch of them, 2-4 end up outside the crib and when I only had one, he would whine/cry looking for it. Sometimes he had no chance to find it because it was on the floor.