Hi ladies,
I am feeling absolutely desperate, my son who is 6 days old wont sleep at all at night. He nurses well and sleeps in my arms but the second he is put down he wakes up. I have him in a love to dream sleep-sack (he likes his arms not swaddled) but I am just beyond exhausted and dont know what to do. Husband is back at work and it is just me.
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My son also wakes up as soon as I lay him down. Have you tried side lying nursing? That's only what working for us atm
I lay him down and me beside him and any time he fusses I pop my boob in his mouth and he falls back asleep.

Same here, mine is 8 days old and I just gave up, and he sleeps skin to skin with us and is the only way we manage to get some sleep.

have you tried bottle feeding to top up? your LO might be just satisfied but not full.
When my daughter started refusing bottle i have to nurse multiple times between 1-2hrs to get her full. then she sleeps.

Oh my baby would wake up as soon as I put him down, I later realised it’s because they aren’t full. Just gotta top the baby up with more milk!
When I was in my partners car yesterday I found sunglasses down the wee side passenger bit but they are usually sunglasses id wear and I said to him are these yours and he was like naw they must be yours cause your the only one that’s been in this car but I have a head like a siv I can’t remember but I leave sunglasses lying everywhere, I have a pair in my car .. and I also have ones left in my boyfriends house that have been there for ages. But I can’t remember 🤣 I think I was at a fair middle of August and bought a pair for a pound.
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Only lived at my address for 5 months, I can’t go into detail of everything that’s happened with this 1 neighbour because it’s too much 🤣 but basically he’s weird and creepy as f*. He’s wanting too much information about my toddler, i am 4 weeks pp and haven’t answered the door once (since giving birth) to his parcels being left here or him ringing my bell. I feel like I’m being a bad neighbour but he’s just too much. I don’t want to stand at my door having the same repetitive conversation of him delving too much into my life, while I have a baby and a toddler now to watch.
Also my dog only barks at him…
He stares into my window every time he walks by (he lives right next door) honestly I wish I could spew every encounter I’ve had with him here but it’s too much 🤣😅 anyway - how do I stop feeling like a nasty neighbour? I don’t want him to hate me incase he is a psycho and tries anything but I also don’t want him to speak to me…
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My hasn’t had a poo for almost 6 days now. He’s mostly breastfed and once in a while on formula. Have spoken to health visitor but was adviced to
Monitor. I’ve also done lots of exercises with my baby like bicycle ride and tummy massage but nothing. His tummy is soft and winds a lot but no poo yet. Should I still be worried ? Almost 7 weeks
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I have just had my 5 day appointment and my baby has dropped 9%. I've been booked for a reweigh on Monday and told if she's lost more we will be sent to hospital. I said that's fine but I will refuse any feeding plan as I was put on one last time ( triple feeding) and it made my daughter projectile vomit and my mh plummet. She then asked if I had through about pumping and I said no I won't be pumping 5 days PP and 1 day after my milk has come in. Honestly the whole appointment has left me so angry at the pressure they put on us to get back to birth weight in 10 days. My partner also said she was weighed wearing a hat and blanket ( I had a c section so couldjt se)
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So we share shifts at night, he has baby shift until 2am, and i go to bed at 8.30am and take over at 2am and he gets up for work at 7am, so we both get an uninterrupted 5 hrs sleep, which was working well..until baby doesnt sleep AT all due to reflux. So the past 3 nights ive not even had 5mins sleep from 2am, then expected to carry on all day until I can go to bed again at 8.30p.. cannot nap in the day really as she doesnt stay in her bed longer than half hr.
I had a complete meltdown after 3 days of being up since 2am saying its not sustainable, I physically cannot start my days at 2am but he just turned it into "well we get the same sleep, I get 5hrs from 2am-7am, same as you do before that time and its more than most dads offer so we are lucky"
I do feel like being awake from 2am all day every day, isnt do-able , his staying up til 2am would feel much more manageable in my opinion, so he isnt seeing where I am coming from.
I am feeling so upset about his not seeing my point of view, and worried im starting my day at 2am isnt sustainable for my mental health if she isnt sleeping.
I am feeling so unheard by him😭
Any better tips on how to share the night? We dont stay in same room due to me being awake the entire time otherwise (and him) on each other's shifts.
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I've noticed for the last year, I'm stuck in this phase of rumination.
Thoughts about people who has wrong me in the past.
It's not a feeling of hate or ill willm it's almost like a heart break over what a friend or family member did. And I think wow I would have never did that to them.
It's taking up to much mental load and I realised these past events has put a wall up.
I dont want these scenarios to live rent free in my head. I have no time for it.
But the question is, how do you just get over it and move on?
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