is it the 18mo regression early?

for context my daughter used to sleep through the night from 7-7 and she required no rocking or soothing to put to bed or for naps, she was on 2 naps a day

then about 3 weeks ago she started refusing her naps and would scream when I put her to bed, it doesn’t matter what time I put her down she is waking about 5/5:30am just screaming, I can’t seem to settle her back down

i’ve started to manage a nap or two during the day but there definitely not long enough and she has stopped fighting bedtime as much but the 5am wake ups are killing me!

I try everything to get her back down and nothing is working

anyone going through the same? 🥴

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Washing Toddler’s Hair

😆 This is exactly why I just have him lay on the counter and wash his hair in the sink using a diaper changing pad.

Just needing support.

April 24th, I made the mistake of not watching where I was going, thankfully it was after I already put my baby girl in her car seat so she wasn’t with me when it happened, and I was ran over by a truck in front of my house. It initially hit me and knocked me down but the back tire grabbed my right leg and pulled me under it. I thought that was it. That was the final moments I had with my family on the way to the hospital. My husband breaking every traffic rule to get me there because I didn’t think I had time to wait for an ambulance. In reality if it was my time, I didn’t want to go in front of our home, I didn’t want that for them. I just remember holding my little girls hand while she babbled away telling my husband and her how much I loved them, telling my husband to promise me that he’ll have her know who I was and that I never wanted to leave her. I ended up in the icu followed by multiple hospital stays and more appointments to come. I have multiple broken ribs, a broken back, I had internal bleeding from my liver, a collapsed lung and severe damage to my right leg. That they are still unsure the extent of the damage it has caused to it. Now I’m navigating being a mom, barely able to hold my baby, technically not even supposed to carry her. And be a wife when just getting up and getting myself dressed takes every bit of strength I have. So household chores and dinners everything I devoted myself to be being a wife and a mother was stripped from me. Everyday is a struggle. My husband has stepped up to do both roles as best as he could but you know how that can be. I feel lonely, lost, useless and a burden. But at that same time I’m so blessed to be here to feel these things just because of this little girl I thought I had to say goodbye to forever.

3 week old cluster feeding and restless!

FTM of 3 week old boy and the past 24 hours have been HARD. Waking every hour to feed and I’m talking 4oz a time. He’s a big baby at 10lb and up above his birth weight so I’m not too concerned with the amount per feed but it’s CONSTANT. Did anyone else experience this at this age, is so advise please 🙏

Quiet Toddler

Is it normal if toddlers have a day where there less active and want to just lay down? My toddler is normally active,running around and playing with her toys,but today she woke up looking tierd, when we went outside all she wanted to do was laying the same, we inside now and she just want to lay down and the couch and watch some dinosaurs movies. She still eating and is being very talkative. We were pretty busy on Mother's day and she did go to bed late then usual. But she has gone to bed late before and would be active the next day

Breastfeeding at 4yo

So, i am not one to judge but i was put in a position where i couldn’t explain properly something to my toddler.
To put you in the picture, i take my daughter to this baby class since she was a couple weeks, now she is 4 and we are still going until she start school in September. The thing is there’s this boy in class with us who is the same age as her but who was still breastfeed in front of us. I never actually cared, it was their business, she can breastfeed him until he is 18 if she wants 🤷🏻‍♀️
But my daughter started asking questions about it, why is he still having milk like a baby, or is it normal to drink mummy’s milk and if she can have some…i didn’t know how to phrase my answer as first of all i was worried she would ask or point out he was a baby in front of them, and i also don’t want her to think it is very common to keep breastfeeding even when you are going to “big school”
How would you handled this situation? xx

Bed time

I just want to know if anyone feels the same as me because I genuinely feel awful about it.

My lo moves into his room this week though! Duh duh duhhhh!!!

So I absolutely LOVE spending the days with my little man and I go back to work in a few months. Boooooo!

But I’m at a mental barrier, I absolutely hate doing the bedtime routine. I actually have nothing to moan for about it because majority of the time he does go straight down but if he doesn’t it’ll take ages and every night when I know bedtime is coming my mood just plummets. I hate it, I hate the routine (it isn’t actually bad tbh) but I just hate bed time and I don’t know how to make myself feel better about it. I’m going to try stick an AirPod in one ear and start listening to something but I just want to if anyone else feels the same or if I’m just being weird. Maybe a little PPD coming in or something. I really don’t know.