How are we dealing with the exhaustion?!
How are we all dealing with the exhaustion??? Baby is 7weeks old and I feel I haven't had a full night sleep in months (which is technically true as I didn't sleep great in the third trimester).
Baby boy does to a chunk of sleep most nights from around 9/10 - 2/2:30 but then can be really unsettled after 3. I know I'm lucky that he does a chunk of sleep but I'm sick of people telling me that because I still feel absolutely wrecked from tiredness!
Also sick of people telling me I look great because I really don't feel it!
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It is so rough! At this stage we did a mixture of things, its trial and error. For few weeks I would go to bed at like 7 or 8 and my husband would be down stairs with the baby in the Moses until about 11 so I got a solid block of sleep for a little bit. There were some nights we would all be in bed at 7. Mine woke up every 30- 2.5hrs at this age tho.
It’s shit and you do lose your evenings for a while but I promise it’s temporary. Every baby is so different and there is some unwritten competition amongst mums about whose baby is sleeping through the night🥴🥴.
Unsettled from 3pm is normal tho as their sleep pressure and melatonin is depleting. Is there any grandparents who can do 1 night? A sleepless night for them 1 time isn’t the end of the world… a full nights sleep for you might not make you feel as great as you think tho. Made me feel like a weird hangover lol xx
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