What a night!!!

Everything went wrong for me today. First up last week I forgot to get nappies on our weekly food delivery and didn’t go by a town to buy some at the weekend, just completely forgot in the joy of the sun. So I moved the our delivery date from Thursday to tonight last minute and grabbed whatever a lot was left which was 8pm. I thought it was all going to be okay but tonight was the night of my daughter not being able to sleep and wanting to stay in my arms which normally I love but I was conscious of the time getting closer to 8pm and that the shopping would be here soon. Every time I tried to transfer her she would scream like I placed her in a bed of nails and completely freak out. I was panicking she was panicking the dog was downstairs worrying about the cries upstairs. Then when I checked the food shop it was delay by an hour!! Hallelujah I could relax and help her settle properly into a full sleep. In total tonight it took 90 minutes to get her to sleep and it’s been 30 minutes since my shopping arrived and I still don’t have the energy to put it away, I just wait to sleep myself.

How has your night been?

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How many naps does your 4MO have?

Hi ladies, just wondered how many naps your bubbas are having a day?

My little girl sleeps from 7:30pm - 6:30am ish and is still having around 5 naps a day. Her WW vary from an hour up to around 1hr 30/45 mins. I keep reading everywhere about babies transitioning to 3 naps a day but I just don’t see how this is possible as my LO gets so fussy if I push her WW too long.

TIA 🙏🤞

Bedtime

Hi mamas. I let my baby watch kids videos for bedtime until he gets asleep. Am I a worse mum??

Getting out of the house

Please tell me I’m not the only one who finds it near impossible to get out of the house with my LO 😓 She’s 4.5 months and I’ve barely gone outside since giving birth. Where I live it’s still super cold and the 3 times I attempted an outdoor walk with her she started crying after 10 minutes…
She won’t nap or nurse on the go anymore and still nurses every 1.5-2 hours. Up until 4 months her cluster feeding was so frequent I couldn’t go anywhere because of that. I’m completely house bound and going crazy. I feel like every other new mom I see on my social media is out to restaurants, Pilates classes, vacations, etc with their babies and for some reason I’m the only one who can’t handle it. Tell me this gets easier 😭

Edit: *it’s not because I worry about OTHER people with my baby’s crying- her crying stresses ME out especially because I know I’m depriving her of food or sleep because I went further than 30 minutes from our house and she won’t nurse or nap until we get home. It just feels like too much hassle and stress to bother.

Hardest stage yet

I love my little boy to death but my god the 4-6 month stage is killing me off!
I did struggle with the newborn stage being a new mum but wow bring back my newborn 😭

Naps no more than 40 minutes at a time,
He use to sleep through now wakes up 1/2 times a night and wants to start the day at 6am 😴
Screaming like a banshee, loves to roll about but hates the fact he can’t crawl yet and makes it known 😂
cannot be kept entertained for more than 10 minutes at a time.
Doesn’t want to be held sometimes but doesn’t want to be put down (I can’t win 😅)
If it wasn’t for his cheeky personality and the smiles/belly laughs I think I would have lost my mind at this point!

Please tell me I’m not alone 🥲

Help - trapped gas

My baby struggles to fart and poop. She looks so uncomfortable and tries to strain. I've tried infacol and dentanox. But no luck. I've tried massage, bicycle kicks and bathing but no luck. Only a few pumps. Anyone got any other tricks to try? Desperate tired mummy 🫩

BF babies and sleep

Out of curiosity guys, how long are your breastfed babies sleeping for at night? We're still on 2-3 hours here!