Anyone else finding 7/8 month phase IMPOSSIBLE 😔

So, is it just me that was sold the lie that newborns are the hardest??

My boy is nearly 8 months and fk me I find it hard. He is genuinely the best thing in the world but my patience is stretched so thin with the noise! I had no idea the impact it would have on my nervous system. Recently I’ve had thoughts of regretting becoming a mummy and it makes me so sad.

He’s never slept through the night so I know sleep deprivation doesn’t help. In fact the past 2 nights have been waking every hour between 1-5am.

Does it get better????????

Looking for solidarity ❤️‍🩹

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God yeah 😂 luckily he sleeps quite well considering but the day time is chaos. I’ve decided to title myself the ‘crime prevention’ everything he can’t do due to possible injury. Like wires and stuff, that’s all he wants to do. He’s also figured we have stairs and is now wanting to get up them 😂 it’s like he’s turned into a toddler within a week lol

It does, mines nearly 8m he’s had a bit where ge won’t go down or wakes up at stupid o clock but he’s back to sleeping all night, I cut down how many naps he has during the day, started making sure he’s full from dinner and giving him 10 mins of playing with toys or climbing over me before bed to tire him out that bit extra & I’ve put my Alexa in his room to play lullabies seems to have done the trick for now

Don’t know why newborns get such a bad name, they just sleep.
When the rolling, crawling and pulling up starts it’s such hard work! It’s relentless. They start to teeth and you have to figure out what to feed them, it’s hard. It gets easier in my opinion and the sleep gets better!

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Nap location during the day

Where do people put their baby to sleep during the day?

She’s outgrowing her Moses basket at 16 weeks, and think she hates sleeping in anything she can touch the sides of.

Any ideas other than her pram? She wakes in that too because of the sides.

For those that have older talking kids, if u used to watch tv occasionally while your baby was there, did that make tyem talk late ?

I don’t let my son watch tv that much , he’s 7 months but o let him watch occasionally like while I’m making his food or taking a shower and for just a short period of time .. .. he’s already babbling a lot and he’s so interactive… I’m just curious to see how it went for other babies ..

Weird, or not?

Our LO is 17 months. Typically, after dinner I take her up to the bathroom for a bath, and dad does dishes. The other day I offered to swap, assuming he would enjoy bath time. He told me he doesn’t want to give her baths because it’s “weird” for him to be giving her a bath because she’s a girl. I could understand if she were old enough to be bathing herself, but she’s not even 2. I find it really odd that he thinks that it’s “weird” to give his child a bath. Is this a red flag? Should I be concerned?

Sleep

Why won’t my baby sleep past 5:00am!!😩 he’s 4 months old and I think we are right in the sleep regression but he hasn’t really gone past 5:00/5:30 ever! His bedtime is normally 7:30, but this doesn’t matter as if we are out and come home a bit later he still wakes up at the crack of dawn!! Anyone the same?

Feeding on demand

Nicu mum here 👋🏻 my little one is nearly 4months and we’ve been doing 3 hour feeds until last week and we moved to 4 hour feeds for two days. Specialist said our boy was doing great so told us to move to demand feeding… now his not drinking as much and it doesn’t seem enough in mls as we have to track everything. We are now trying different bottles. He was doing part puramino and part expressed breast milk and they told us to go full expressed breastmilk.
Has anyone else had similar and can offer advice? I’m trying not to stress but I can’t help it 😩😩 his sometimes going less than two hours between feeds as we can’t get him to drink enough.

Keeping baby hydrated with diarrhoea

Nearly 10 month old is unwell with a very runny bum. Any tips on how to make sure he doesn't become dehydrated?