Difficult days

Hows everyone dealing with difficult days? When the baby wont stop crying and you feel helpless cos you don't know why, and there's no help, or there is help but its not enough, and you have no energy and all you want to do is crawl and cry till you fall asleep. Any small tips on how to get through those days?

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No real tips but letting you know you’re not alone. Feeling the same way. Hope it gets better soon ❤️

Honestly. If I know he’s absolutely fine and he’s just being aggy, I pop my headphones in for 10 minutes just to get a break. I don’t put the music on but I put them on noise cancelling so I can hear him but it’s silenced out a bit (AirPod 3’s)

My baby is 17 weeks and gone back to Aggy moany whingy all day long it's a vicious circle feed smile Aggy fight nap cry and then again .. yesterday it felt long !! The day before I just got out with the pram for two of those naps for half hour blasted white noise and put music in for me it stopped me going absolutely crazy in the same four walls . It will end there learning so so much but it's difficult x

Crying if I need to, lots of deep breathing, pacing around with him (he’s always enjoyed it) and reminding myself although it’s hard now it won’t last forever and will be forgotten soon

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