4.5 week old constantly crying

Does anyone else’s baby just seem to do nothing but cry?!! I’m exclusively BF my little one and baby did used to cry but not like this! Over the last week or so baby has stopped falling asleep at the breast and is wide awake after feeds - it looks something like - wake up crying, feed (can be fussy pulling on and off breast and needing to be put back on as still showing hunger cues, either scream straight after and be awake but somewhat content for ten mins, then scream again, baby will eventually fall asleep but for varying durations of time (5mins to 1.5hrs)

Any solidarity or words of wisdom??!! I feel numb and guilty for not enjoying this part of my baby’s life💔

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Also experiencing this but my baby is formula fed 🥲

According to the midwives I saw a couple of weeks back this is totally expected between weeks 4-6!

Im having this too ! With my 4 week old.The other night it was a solid 7 hours of screaming after what felt like constant feeding and multiple nappy changes I just couldn’t figure out what was wrong. I did some research and found out it could be that he was too upset or tiered or lazy to suck on the breast and the more he tried the more he was fussing!! So I gave a formula top up which he took and instantly was better. From what I gather this can happen now and again and it’s basically baby being hungry but not being able to get what they need from the breast. Either being too upset to feed correctly or frustrated that the flow from the breast is too slow. I feel your pain it’s extremely hard when they won’t settle and there is no obvious explanation for it. Keep going your doing amazing ❤️

For me this was the start of CMPA.

I remember 4 weeks being absolute hell with my first baby and lots of NCT friends experiencing the same. Not too sure what happens but it did pass 🤍

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I love my partner to absolute bits but omg the snoring I could go insane, my baby was cluster feeding last night which meant I was up till 3 in morning with him I finally get to sleep baby wakes us both up at 6:30 so feed him by time had finished my partner was back asleep and snoring his bliddy head off woke the baby back up then finally settled him again only to me not being able to sleep kept waking partner up didn’t make difference ended up going downstairs which woken baby up again only for him to have another feed cause by this time it’d been 2 hours since the last so now currently almost 9am and I’m wide awake baby’s starting to get to sleep so looks like I’m surviving the day on 3 hours sleep yay and on a busy day 😕 little pic of the man in question and my lil bubba boy

Antibiotics and breast milk.

Has anyone taken antibiotics and noticed that it has affected their breast milk? I have been on antibiotics for a week (4 a day) and every time my baby has breast milk she is immediately sick afterwards and cranky. (This was never an issue before being on antibiotics), so I have been pumping and pouring away my milk (which is soul destroying) until I finish the tablets. She has been having formula instead and isn’t being sick with that at all and seems much more settled.

What age do babies start sleeping through the night??

I know it's different for everyone but what age did your baby start sleeping through?

6 month sleep regression?

Hey mums!!

My daughter is 6m old and her sleep has completely been thrown off for the last week! Before now she would sleep from 6:30pm - 5am have a bottle and then go to sleep until about 7:30am (sometimes sleeping all night) and suddenly now, she’s up every 2/3 hours!

We were “warned” about the 4 month sleep regression but never experienced that as my daughter has always been a great sleeper (something that we don’t take for granted) but haven’t heard of them going through a 6 month sleep regression - I am wondering if anyone else’s LO has gone through the same thing?

I’m keeping to routine, so nothing has changed and she’s very happy in herself - I guess it’s one of these things 🩷

Travel pram

Has anyone used any of these prams? I want to make sure the seat sits upright fully and isn’t really flimsy that my son could fall out but I know these are cheaper prams as I can’t afford a lot so keep looking on marketplace etc

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So my due date is in 10 days but obvs we don’t know when the baby will actually come. Anyway, my SIL is also pregnant (after 10 years of infertility) and I am so happy for her when I found out because the doctors had said they may never conceive. So she has her gender reveal on the 26th of April (which would be almost 2 weeks after due date) in either case I wouldn’t feel comfortable attending while newly postpartum and with a newborn baby where there will be lots of people I don’t even know, I said to my husband he should go just with my daughter, which he agreed but mentioned she might feel a certain way. I mean she needs to sort of be understandable, I just don’t want to put my baby at risk, and after I gave birth last time I made myself very unwell thinking I’m okay to go out and about earlier than I should. On top of this, she shouldn’t feel a certain way because in our culture it is crucial for the mum and baby to not leave the house for 40 days, and she knows this. Anyway I don’t think I’m being an Asshole, I just don’t want to put my baby at risk and especially because people from my country don’t know boundaries when it comes to babies (kissing them, holding them, passing them around)