Not napping during day

My baby boy is 2 months old and has began to not want to nap during the day however sleeps beautifully during the night?

Is anyone else going through the same thing or knows what to do??

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My 11 week old boy is at this stage now, he will quite literally only sleep on me during the day and when I try to put him down he just cries to be held🥺

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Yep my 9 week old is so hard to get or keep asleep in the day but gets so emotional because she's so tired but will only nap on me. She sleeps well at night hopefully that doesn't change! x

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Omg im so glad it’s not just my little boy. I feel bad moaning coz he sleeps well at night but during the day he’s a terror, he will be so tired and fight it then cry, then get himself in a state and be even harder to settle. It’s every single day and I’ve tried so many different routines and ways of getting him off but nothing works! X

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did this get any better? Going through this Just now

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hey I’m sorry I’ve just seen this! I actually ended up paying for the huckleberry app and using that to track his maps and that worked so well for us, he’s now 7 nearly 8 months and I no longer need to use it as he’s now more predictable with his wake windows. It’s so hard, but it does get better xx

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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.

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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?”

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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.

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