Newborn Trenches

Your not alone lovely my daughter was a little fusspot. I know it doesn't help much but it won't last forever. Have you tried different things? I took her out for a walk in the pram every single nap time then when she was asleep I would open the front door and push the pram into the hallway and get a cuppa or a sleep myself! I'd put a sign on the door 'do not knock for ANY reason baby sleeping'. If you have any help take it. Your baby will survive crying with a grandmother for example for half an hour while you take some time for yourself. I wish I'd done this more I thought I had to do everything by myself. You got this mama x

Hey you are not alone! I’m having the exact same experience and my baby is 5wks old. I’m exhausted and it feels like if we aren’t feeding she is upset now. Just try to remember this stage is only temporary and in a week things could be completely different! I’ve noticed warm evening baths help soothe my daughter and if I feed her and then go for a car ride she will sleep. Sometimes relying on that just to stop her from being overtired and get some rest helps. Sometimes they just get extra fussy when they are going through a growth spurt and learning new things which is exciting!

I am also trying to cut dairy out of my diet and avoid gassy foods to see if it helps the gassiness

I don’t have much magical advice to help you that others don’t but you aren’t alone ❤️

Dorothy, let me tell you what you’ve just described could have some directly from having a camera inside of my apartment right now. My daughter is 5 weeks old and for the last few weeks has been seeming to be struggling more with trapped gas. After every feeding, no matter how often we pause to burp she always looks so uncomfortable and even in pain through trying to strain for a poo/toot. She’ll push and squirm so much that she actually turns red. This makes it infinitely more difficult to soothe her back to sleep. I spent the better part of an hour after one of her recent feedings nap trapped. We’ve also been adding the Mylicon drops to every bottle(breastmilk), doing the bicycle leg exercises as well as others, extra tummy time…etc. We recently switched bottles from the mam brand to dr.brown’s anti colic, but those tops leak a ton so today I got the Phillips Avent brand. I also got some probiotic drops and will be trying gripe water soon.

Have you tried biogia probiotics? I would recommend starting with that! I felt my baby is passing gas easier when we introduced this probiotic to her. Is your baby breastfed or formula? That can play a big factor as well in his fussiness

This is a weird one but we switched from the bassinet to the crib (in our room) and that made a world of difference. I think the foam bassinet mattress is not enough and they can feel the hard bottom underneath it. You could try a slightly thicker bassinet mattress or maybe crib instead. We were getting like maybe an hour stretch at a time but mostly just contact naps and crying. The first night we switched to the crib we got 3 hours in bed.

Im going through the same thing. Mylicon helped tremendously for us too. We also started using a top hat potty after diaper changes and when we notice her grunting a bunch. It does help her with a poo or a fart.

We are still trying to figure out how to get her to sleep during the day. She will not nap easily during the day…

My daughter is 4 weeks and we are having the exact same experience. It’s so disheartening sometimes! You’re not alone! Someone in the earlier comments mentioned heating up the bassinet before putting them down, we’ve had some success with this. We just put a heating pad on low for 10 minutes before putting her down.

So my daughter who is almost 4 weeks old normally won’t sleep unless she is on me. But I managed last night to get her to sleep in her own bed after I wrapped one of my shirts around her that I had just worn. I’ve heard your smell is what they look for