I yell at my baby
So my 4 month old has developed a very frustrating new habit where he arches his back with all force in refusal to nurse to sleep. I know he’s tired and he needs to sleep but he keeps refusing to nurse when he’s tired. Sometimes he refuses to nurse bcz he simply just wants to get up and play.
So my milk supply has not changed, literally nothing is different than the fact that we are in a sleep regression.
Anyways, it gets so frustrating putting him to sleep because he keeps wanting to get up and then he gets fussy bcz he’s tired, I try to nurse him again and he refuses again, and we’d be literally fighting for an hour or more. I yell at him sometimes because it literally frustrates my SOUL. But then he starts crying and it breaks my heart, I feel so bad that I yell at him but sometimes I just can’t stop myself from raising my voice. Sometimes, I stop myself from yelling, put him on the bed and leave the room to cry to myself for 5 minutes and then I’d go back to him.
Idk why he keeps doing this, please help me bcz I don’t wanna keep yelling at him like this, and before anything bad happens!!!
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Ok so first things first, you are not the only one. I’ve shouted a bit before when my LO was literally screaming down my ear for about ten minutes and I was trying to soothe her. (6mo now). I gave her plenty of kisses and cuddles after I felt awful.
You’re doing amazing by putting him to go calm down. This is literally what you’re supposed to do if you’re getting overwhelmed.
This will pass.
One thing I will say is that babies can start rolling at any point from 4 months, so I wouldn’t personally put him on the bed so he can’t fall off if he nautically starts doing it. I’d literally even go with the floor as a last resort. Xx
You need some emotional regulation.
Keep in mind that your baby is having a harder time than you are and he’s not trying to give you hard time. If you want to yell, put him somewhere safe and walk away for a few minutes.
He’s a baby, he’s impulsive, he doesn’t understand why you’re yelling.
He’s arching because he doesn’t want to eat. The arching is usually a response to pain or discomfort. Don’t try to force feeding if he doesn’t want to, you could create a feeding aversion which will be incredibly hard to work though. No pressure! Imagine someone trying to force food down your throat when you’re full or your belly hurts and you just don’t want to eat.
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