Advice please! My baby suddenly crying a lot more…

My baby is 4 weeks old today. She doesn’t cry much at all and when she does, I can settle her almost instantly (usually she just wants to BF) or I’ll burp her etc but she always stops.
However, last night, she’s suddenly different. She started getting so unsettled and crying a lot more suddenly and I couldn’t settle her. Managed to get her down for short stretches of sleep but it’s carried in to today where she’s been crying and screaming a lot more and won’t settle.

She’s different all of a sudden and I don’t know if this is normal or whether I should be concerned. 🙁 Any advice or experiences would be so much appreciated!

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Is anyone a health visitor - need advice 🙏🏼

I’m severely struggling as a single parent with no family or other parent.

My toddler is well turned out, cared for, eats well, bathed, cuddled, loved, has external social activities. I give my everything to my child. So they’re not lacking. They are safe.

But I’m not well. Mentally and physically.
I can’t wash, feed myself well, lack of happiness in any aspect. Exhausted. Falling behind on so many things apart from maintaining my daughter.
Going through some external life issues which are exasperating life in the last yr or so. I can’t cope, I’m so low. I’ve had worrying thoughts about maybe it’s best I end things with myself and our pets. And let my daughter be free of everything that’s going towards me failing to survive myself. So lost and falling apart physically and mentally.
I can’t let my daughter down as she’s so attached to me. But I can’t cope.
The toddler phase has ramped up and I don’t know how to deal with the meltdowns. I don’t know how to fix myself. I don’t want her to create a bad start to how she see’s life because I’m hanging by a thread. Sometimes (a lot lately) feel she deserves better.
There’s so much to unpack that I can’t verbalise.

appreciate people might reply and say you’re doing a good job, or it is hard, etc.

But I really need a health visitors opinion on what support I may get. Without them thinking I’m saying I can’t be her mother.

This isn’t coming out well, but I’m dying inside. I don’t want to wake up. I have to admit I can’t do this and she deserves a big family and not a mother drowning in this life

Sleep schedule

I need some advice.I have a twenty one month old son.His name is miles.He's such a great baby but lately, he's been going down for his normal bedtime. 738 and then wakes up at 12 o'clock at midnight and stays up the rest of night, dancing carrying on. I've done everything song to Em rock. Try to Rock Em to sleep, played his soothing music. You name it, I've done it and it just doesn't work. And it's like he's sleeping. I mean, I haven't saw me, but he's too young to haven't saw me yet. I feel like he thinks he's gonna miss something till lately. Here and there I've been given a melatonin which I know it's just a supplement and it's not addictive. But they can get accustomed to that. And by taking nuts, that's the only way they can go to sleep. And I don't want him to feel like that. And honestly, he's got the gists of what I'm putting something in this milk because he throws the milk bottle. Now and it's horrible. I don't like to give it to him all the time. And sometimes it works, but sometimes it does not.And he is so hyper, he's bouncing off the walls, even worse than he was before.I just need some help.I'm a single mother and i'm not getting a lot of sleep at all.I just need some guidance, please.Ladies

Should I take milk in my hospital bag?

Hiya,

I’m about to be 39 weeks and so far I seem to have no milk, I’ve tried all the tips of warm massage etc but can’t seem to get anything which makes me think my milk may not come until possibly after baby is born (if at all)

Did anyone else struggle with this or have delayed milk? If so would you recommend me taking some instant baby milk in my hospital bag or would the hospital provide this if my milk hadn’t come in yet?

Owlet Sock

Just wondering if anyone else experiences issues with the owlet sock disconnecting from the base station every night?
The base station is less than 10ft from baby and it still disconnects every night without fail 😩
Has anyone used an alternative to the owlet that they would recommend because I’m ready for launching it out the window at this point 😅

iPad

What age is advisable to buy your child an iPad? Or what age did you buy your child one

Bathing baby

Hi

This may seem like a stupid question…

My little boy is 14 weeks old , we currently have a nappy changing station with a bath attached were we have been bathing him however he is now getting to long for it , I have a collapsing bath which he is also to big for. I have a shower no bath , any ideas where/how I can bath him ? 🫣 Thank you!