6 months

Please tell me other people are experience a 6 month old whingy baby! He got quite good at sleeping and had a good routine with bottles and naps etc but I feel like 6 month has hit and all of this has gone out the window!!!!! he won't sleep at night and wakes up crying every hour or so. So restless. In the day he's happy for abit and then back to whingy like he doesn't know what he wants.

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I'm having the same, there's a 6 month regression, and a big growth spurt at 6 months. My son is also teething horrendously, and has developed a dribble rash so bad that he needs 2 creams and potentially antibiotics 🫠

Same here. Whingy baby here. Teething and he gets frustrated easily. Up alot at night with discomfort I think from teething and sleep regression. Really hard. My head is so muzzy!

Same here, naps and bottles during the day are hard. Wake windows aren’t working out. Some nights are good but others he’s so unsettled. Not sure what to do with it all expect cry and sleep when he does😂

My twins are going through the same 😢 the only time they're really settled is when we're outside and they're sleeping in their pram, cue me going out for 3 hour walks whilst my 3 year old is in preschool 🤣 Nothing seems to please them at the moment so it's exhausting constantly trying to keep them entertained 😫 To top it off one of them is a screamer 🙄 so that's fun 🤦‍♀️ At the moment I'm just living for walkies and bedtime time (I'll get at least 3/4 hours before the fussing starts) I just keep telling myself it won't last forever and enjoy them as much as possible as they're not babies for long (easier said then done I know 🤣) We got this 💪

I wish someone would comment whose gone through it and can tell us it gets easier

Currently in the same boat. My baby had always been a whinger but is so much worse right now plus he Hates me leaving him..can't get anything done 🫠

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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....

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.

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I’m going crazy. Baby born at 2.26kg. Slow to put on weight. This last week hasn’t put on any. Been trying to feed him at night and he’s not interested at all. Fast asleep. During day he will have 5 minute gulps and that’s it. He don’t cry for milk. I’ve got to keep offering to him. I try to offer it every hour but I don’t know what I’m doing. HV said nutrition comes after 5 minutes so I should pump first and then give him. I find it so hard. I tried to pump one boob nothing came. The other abit came. Tried giving him express he’s not interested in that too. Sometimes he will go for a longer a feed but not long at all. He’s 4 months and is currently 5.46kg. I have no family or friend support here and wish I had a cook, cleaner and nanny to help with everything so I can concentrate on the little one. I don’t know what’s wrong with him but I’m loosing it. It doesn’t help that my also stressed generally about my relationship and life circumstances. Any advice that will work. Any comfort you can give. I’m fed up. Is this regression - not feeding. He’s fast fast asleep. I’ve been trying to push the nipple in but that mouth is closed shut. I took some clothes off. Changed his nappy but he’s still asleep. Please help

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