Since becoming a mom, what affects your sleep most?

I’m curious because people talk a lot about baby sleep, but not always about what happens to our nervous system after becoming moms.

Sometimes even when there is finally quiet, the body still doesn’t fully switch off.

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Definitely overstimulation. Everything is loud sometimes.

Even in the quietness, your mind doesn’t go. Can’t ever be alone in peace

My husbands alarm!!! I wake up to it 5 times before he shuts the damn thing off and gets up. I literally have to shake him awake. 😫😫😫😫

I have 2 toddlers who were here before my current newborn. Despite them sleeping through the night for more than a year, I would still wake every 3 hours anticipating somebody needing me. Even my partners absence from bed if he was staying up late would wake me, knowing when he comes to bed I'll wake or if any the kids have a nightmare or get a temperature.... I've been on alert for 3 and a half years now. So done

Using the night as ‘me time’ to binge watch tv and doom scroll because I can’t do that in the day time 🤣 then realising it’s 1am and my daughter will be awake in 4 hours and stressing so much that I can’t sleep

All of the above, plus I always need a wee at some point.

Definitely my mind racing. I wish I could make it stop. 🫠

Baby and sometimes overstimulated but now that I’m so sleep deprived I don’t have trouble falling asleep it’s the staying asleep sometimes baby cries at 3am and keeps me up until 5/6 I thought newborns be up for 30m/1h but shit and when I’m overwhelmed/overstimulated I just can’t seem to relax myself

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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.

Has anyone ever faked a pass ouy or death?

I usually do different emergency things that could happen with my kids and yesterday I only had my 2yo son and 3yo daughter i pretend to have fainted (im 36 weeks pregnant) My daughter was on her device so she really didn't pay me any mind but my 2yo kept calling me and opening my eye lid thats when my 3yo came over looked at me and said "mom can you put this code in?" Lmao 🤣 do I need something more realistic or something for her?

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?

Cuttting formula to make it stretch?

Is there anyway to make 14oz stretch? Longer than 2 bottles? Ive heard people adding purée or baby cereal

Nursery settling in days/ Naps

What are we doing about settling days that clash with baby’s nap ? I have 3 settling in days in August, first one is 1h , and the other two are 2h, they all start at a time where baby would go down for a nap which is between 9-10am but they can still change by the time they come so not sure what to do? Any advice please? TIA!

Dramatic?

Hate even talking about this but I am a FTM really struggling. I cry most days and was recently diagnosed with PPD. My partner knows this as I am open and honest with him. He has been so supportive and helps with everything regarding me and baby. However, yesterday I saw that on his Instagram he was looking at videos of half naked girls. I’m honestly so upset and I know it’s not really “wrong” but feeling the lowest I have ever felt and postpartum and knowing that’s what he was looking at really hurt me. Am I being dramatic?