This is hard!

Anyone else finding this age (nearly 10mo) so hard?? For some reason, sleep is now non-existent. Like literally up every hour or less at the moment. He's never slept through but at 8 months we started getting 4/5 hour stretches...

Also, like he's shouting and screaming all the time?? And biting non-stop 😵‍💫 he does have two teeth coming in but they've pierced the skin now so surely they're not to blame for all of this.

Also, he's now climbing everything and keeps standing and falling when he's in his crib at night 🥺

I am so sleep deprived, I feel like a zombie and am struggling to be patient or understanding 😅

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Yes, I feel you! Our baby has never been a great sleeper and she wakes up screaming every 2 hours or so. Also back to the 5 am starts 🤦🏼‍♀️ she is climbing everything too, even up the stairs! I cried this morning because I had enough 😂

We’ve just got over the sleep issues (he’s just gone 10 months) but he’s trying to climb everything and I can’t turn my back for a second anymore 😂 today he’s nearly ended up falling head first off the sofa, fallen flat on his face on the floor and tried pulling himself up on his walking frame and slipped so ended up squished up against it 🤦🏻‍♀️ he’s very clingy at the moment too so trying to complete basic tasks ends with him in a meltdown! It’s all very chaotic 😂 x

@Zoë oh gosh it's so hard isn't it!! I think I'm nearing a breakdown 😂😂 literally already had 5 wakes since he went down at 8 🫠

@Beckie they just have no fear 😅 my LO fell today too, even though I was right nearby my reflexes just are nowhere near as quick as his falling 🙃

Mine is walking in the whole house 🤦‍♀️i need to have 10273628 eyes and hands 😂😂😂he s so fresh all the time even if he needs to sleep (10m and 3 days)

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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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This is hard!

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