In your experience, when do the “newborn trenches” end?!

Sleep deprivation is so real baby is at 5 weeks and I am barely hanging in there… any words of advice and encouragement is appreciated!

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The key is sleep training, keeping baby awake more during the day so they can sleep more at night. My baby is 6 weeks currently and she sleeps 4-5 hours straight at night I combo feed breast milk and formula. Her pediatrician told me to let her sleep at night and not wake her up until she wakes me up and it helps a lot. I also co sleep sometimes the c curl method it just gives me a peace of mind and we both sleep better.

At 5 weeks my girl did sleep more through the day when she was growing but I would make sure to try to keep her up as long as I could in between feeds before she got super super fussy. I hope some of this helps!

Follow a sleep schedule - download LittleOnes from App Store, baby is eight weeks and the past week has slept a seven hr stretch overnight then 3/4 hrs before waking 645am

Hang in there you got this

My baby is 8 weeks and I noticed she started to sleep 3-4hr stretches at night around week 6. I mainly focused on creating a consistent time to wind down for bed and gave her one last feed before bedtime. I didn’t monitor her naps during the day but I did try to make her not nap an hour before bedtime. Every baby is different so don’t feel bad if these tips don’t work. It will get better over time!

Mine started sleeping longer stretches (3-4 hours) around 6 weeks. She also takes one 2+ hour nap during the day and a few shorter 30 min-1 hr naps.

You don't want to prevent them from napping during the day, then they are overstimulated and overtired.

To be honest. I bought a mattress that I could safely breastfeed and sleep (pediatrician approved of this) and when she’s awake I do tummy time and sing songs that I listen to that are appropriate. I basically just include her in the the things I love so I don’t feel like I’m losing myself during the first two months (did this with my first and doing it with my 1 month old now)

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Sleeping through

All I see at the moment is how their 6 month old is sleeping through the night… and we are no where near that!

Never has my baby slept through the night. Not once. She wakes a minimum of twice per night but more recently it’s 3 or 4 times (could be teething or from solids idk?)

Please give me reassurance their babies are the same???

Or if they do sleep through the night… what is the secret???

4 months pp feelings

4 months in and still don’t feel myself..
Every day I’m waking up and just waiting for my partner to get home. Feeling lonely constantly..

love my baby so much but he still doesn’t do a lot so sometimes (often) feel like monkey running around him so he doesn’t cry.. wish he was bigger so we could have a chat, I could at least have some conversation with him.

I thought it will get easier but feeling still the same as I felt before.
Maybe I wasn’t made to be a mother.
I see all these mothers so happy walking around and feel like I’m a bad mother even though I give all the attention to my baby so I know he feels loved for sure.

When will I start feeling better?
To add to this, Baby sleeping 11 hours at night with 1 feed only but I barely sleep so I’m exhausted (I just wake up at night for no reason and struggling to fall asleep)

Is anyone feeling the same? Mothers with more than one child - did you feel like this with your first one and it passed at some point?