The mental toll of being woken up multiple times a night for almost a year 😓

Oh myyyy, tell me about it 😩 I keep reminiscing about the days when I could sleep for 10/12 hours straight if I wanted (pre-baby obvs!)...the physical and mental toll of the sleep deprivation is honestly the hardest thing and makes me so scared about going back to work. Not sure when it ends, but keep trying to remember that this is only a relatively short phase in our lives, and one day we will miss them needing us so much 🥹

Yes omg 😭 Now I would kill for even 6-7 hours straight. Im scared for work too I dont know how I will cope.

Maybe I am misremembering but I even feel like the early days around like 2-3 months werent as bad, my baby was sleeping like 4-5 hours then, woke for a bottle and back to sleep fairly easily and them being next to us in the room meant it was easier. Now we dont know why they wake and it can be like every hour 😖

Yes. One of the most annoying things for me is when I’ve been up with the baby, he goes back to sleep and then I can’t sleep!! I’ve been up since 4 this morning because the baby very briefly needed me but then I’ve not been able to get back to sleep! 😴 😴 😴

Been up since 5am with my son. It’s exhausting! I really thought by now we’d be getting more sleep but it’s the worst it’s ever been! I think it’s more exhausting now as they need to be entertained more, when they were newborns you could kind of just hold them all day 😅

I was saying this exact thing the other day. In the newborn days I was up more frequently but found it easier as I was still getting a lot of time in the day to just sit holding my sleeping baby, drink tea and watch Netflix! Now I don’t get a second to chill.

I lost it and starting sobbing after 3 wake ups in two hours 😔😔😔 It was 6 overall last night

I turned my monitor on silent mode for that reason! Could still see my baby on video if I needed to and with my door open I could hear her without the monitor if she did start properly crying. Just meant I wasn’t waking up every time she made any grunting noises or cried out in her sleep.
Made the world of difference so might be worth a shot for you!

thank you I might give this a try!!!

Definitely worth doing! If your baby doesn’t wake crying because they need a feed etc then try to have the confidence to know that you don’t need to hear every cry or noise they make - when I realised that my baby did a lot of ‘crying out’ in their sleep it made me realise I didn’t need to be waking up to those sounds. Trust me you would hear them without the monitor if they are crying because they need something cause I think these days we are all hardwired to be light sleepers so we can hear our babies without the need of the monitor.
You need your sleep mama!! X