At my wits end

I’m honestly at my wits end trying to get my baby to sleep at night, it’s been 2 hours of trying this evening and she’s still not asleep. I’m so frustrated at my myself as I thought she was tired. I dunno what I’m doing wrong. I’m not getting any time to myself on a evening 😭😭😭

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It so hard sometimes. And some time I feel it’s unexplained reasons. But I found listening to wake windows and age range helpful my little one is pretty low sleep needs and wake through the night every 2hrs or so so I’ve not got it right either sending love

Don’t give up, you’re not doing anything wrong. Most likely your baby’s bedtime routine needs adjusting.
Maybe time to drop a nap? My lo is now staying awake 5 hours after waking from their last nap so I know not to start bedtime routine too early otherwise we fight. Maybe try a later bedtime routine start?

Just got my little one to sleep. He woke up after 15 minutes and has refused to go back to sleep but is so hysterical because he’s overtired but won’t sleep 🫠😭

Aww it is so hard hun but you're definitely not doing anything wrong. My 11 month old very recently has stopped wanting 2 naps in the day and just has 1 and then by bedtime she's knackered but I just follow her lead xx

My little one woke up at 3am & didn’t go back to sleep untill her 9.30am morning nap😩 we’ve all been awake since 3am.. I thought she was getting better at sleeping

Same here! My 11 month old wasn’t ever a very good sleeper, but for the last two weeks his sleeping has been complete hell for me 😭 feel like a zombie and I’m not getting anything right. I’m hoping it’s a phase that will pass 🙏🏼 sending lots of love your way x

Currently going through the same thing, it’s so exhausting not having a little evening time to relax 😢 then I just get frustrated and feel bad afterwards

No advice but we are in the exact same boat, you’re not alone & it’s so tough! Hoping it’s just a phase or regression 🤞🏼

Literally just got her to sleep, guess I’ll be going to bed now too 😭😭thank you for all the lovely messages, the last few weeks the evenings have been tough but tonight was something else

My little ones been up 3x already! Relate so much. I'm ill and also have ASN almost 4yo- who had a tough day today. Solo myself 😭
Luckily he 99% sleeps through but she's ebf- refuses dummy and bottles. I'm knackered

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I’ve managed to not used one so far but it’s getting hard not too since the four month sleep regression has started and my husband is against it…

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Obviously I took it away but he’s gotten more creative, he uses other brushes he finds, ice cubes (that he’s always loved to play with), his finger, ect.

He’s noticed we don’t like this behavior and will stop it so he will go to the other room and take off his diaper to do it and then laugh when he gets caught.

I don’t want to traumatize him about his own body and I understand it’s him being curious and not understanding but he has done it so often since finding out he can and it’s relentless about it.

I put clothes on him to but he’ll take them off and if I catch him taking it off he runs away laughing and hides and I’m 6 months pregnant so chasing him is hard

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I feel like I’m horrible mom

I love my 4 months old daughter. I would do anything for her. I’m a first time mom and I’m doing this basically alone (no village). My husband is at work from 8am to 5:30pm and when he comes home he’s no help. It’s always an argument if I can get a few minutes of help from him.
I also have been dealing with EXTREME back pain from my emergency c-section that I don’t sleep at night.
My daughter has been different today. She’s constantly crying due what seems to be from pain, I’m assuming a mix from gum (teething pain) and reflux. For the first time today she’s puking a lot of her formula milk out. She usually spits but today she has extra burps and a lot more puke. I’ve been comforting her all day. It’s raining so we can’t go out for a walk today.
Since I don’t know how else to comfort her except hold her, read her books, sing to her, pat her on the back, give her snuggles, walk around the house with her, nothing helped. She just kept crying and screaming to the point that I screamed. This is NOT like me. I then put her in her crib and turned on the mobile crib music and left her for 30 seconds to go cry. I know we go through a lot as moms, but I feel horrible and started to cry and then after a few seconds I held her. I ended up giving her 0.25ml of baby Tylenol, and then held her again, I apologized to her while still crying and she smiled and reached out for my face. I feel horrible like I should be able to handle my emotions more.
Again, I’m going through a lot. I miscarried twice, had a surgery, and she is from an emergency c-section. My family lives abroad and I have no one except my not-so-helpful husband. It’s not an excuse. I feel really alone and she depends on me, so I shouldn’t have screamed. I am breaking inside. From pain in my back and lack of sleep, lack of support, it just broke me. I love her so much and I’m so happy she chose me. I don’t know why or what to do, but I have so much guilt and shame