Short naps??

My daughter is about to turn 5 months old ....
She has never really napped well unless contact naps.
If in her crib, she will nap for the maximum of 30 minutes.
I'm losing the will to live as I get no time to do housework or 5 minutes to myself.
What else can I do? We've swaddled her, sleeping bag, sleeping suit, huckleberry app, white noise pink noise ......

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My son is exactly the same as soon as I put him down he’s awake. I’m a single mum and it’s gone 11 and only just managing to eat my tea. I thought it was the 4 month sleep regression and keep telling myself it will end soon. But feels like it’s going on forever and need to get stuff done. I’m up till at least 1am trying to get other stuff done around the house. I’ve tried all them stuff too. Following for any advice…as would be very grateful

Hi girls, I’m a July mama (31st July) and this post popped up on my feed just want you to know I know exactly how you feel but there’s a light at the end of the tunnel - my girl will be 7m at the end of this month and this past week or so has FINALLY started having longer naps and having longer wake windows. There will be a few more bumps in the way (6m is a tough time for babies) but after that things start to settle down and get easier again (I’ve 2 girls and same thing happened with both - just suddenly went from 20-30 min naps to an hour nap around the 7m mark so I keep my fingers crossed the same happens for you both too

Sorry no advice but just wanted you both to know that it gets easier and you’re both doing a great job

Thank you ladies .....my first slept so well, my second was awful never slept day or night.....
But there's a big gap 13, 10 and 5 months so I'm new to this again after so long 😆....
She sleeps amazing at nite other than waking for feeds and goes down around 7:30 really well it's just the day time naps which she never really gone longer than 30 mins I believe 2 occasions she slept 2hrs x

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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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