Ima be honest… I’m struggling

The WORST part of becoming a parent? For me personally?? Would be 10000% lack of sleep! I’ll be 1m pp with my second & I am EXHAUSTED. Before kids I was a napper, as a child/teenager I’d come home from school & straight away go sleep till dinner time. Wake up eat, shower maybe play if I was feeling fancy or just happyily go back to sleep🤷🏻‍♀️. When I was 16 got my first job working full time while in school. So I’d nap during my free period & lunch… any time I was actually home I’d be sleeping. When I graduated & just worked fulltime 2+ jobs is again nap anytime I was home or during my lunch breaks😅. With my first daughter it was so easy to still get a little nap in… but with her being a toddler & having a newborn? I get 4hrs IF I’m lucky. I’m struggling… what do ya’ll do to help during the day? I’ve yet to have a successful nap this past month without my man being home & those naps only last 30min - 1.5hrs… cause I exclusively pump every 3hrs.. & he works 60+ hrs a week & needs a chance to nap too.. I’m so tiredd😭. “Nap when the kids nap” my toddler take a amazing 2-3hr nap but around that time her sister decides that’s her awake/party time🙃❤️

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Pram Help

My baby has just turned three months and has started to get more aware of what around them, and sometimes when I take them out in the pram they are wide awake and looking around, I use the flat basket at the moment but I started on really quick trips that last no longer than 10 minutes use the cat seat so they can look around, well with the pram I got the seat section but as my baby can't sit up and can only hold their head a tiny bit during tummy time, what do I do?
Photo shows the pram I have.

Nappy Deals

Just to let people know who don't know, Morrisons has a deal on Pampers nappies, I got the 50 pack of size 1 for £3 from £8. Also Tesco does a deal on Pampers if you get click and collect or delivery, I think, photo below. I also got the Pampers app which is worthwhile. I just thought I let people know to help save money because it does get expensive.

Best night yet!!!

Is it a fluke I hope not! 😭🥴 My 6 week old is slowly getting better throughout the night and the 5am my partner did so had some beautiful sleep myself, crazy what a couple hours of sleep can do😍

I want to stop co-sleeping 😭

I literally don't know what to do. I want to stop co-sleeping but it is a nightmare. As soon as I place my baby in his bassinet he'll start screaming bloody murder, or roll onto him belly and wake himself up, or sleep 30 minutes then wake up. It's a battle every night and eventually I'm exhausted and give up. He wins and gets to sleep next to mommy. I don't know what to do. 😭 He sleeps perfectly fine on his own for naps, just not at bedtime. Any advice?

Post partum sex

Hey, I’m just wondering how long it was until people felt ready to have sex again after giving birth? Preferably would like to hear from people who gave birth vaginally and possibly people who tore as well. I feel like I’m ready but I’m scared it’ll hurt because of my scar… (in no way is my man pressuring me at all, this is all me😂)

Self soothing

curious to know when did yall begin letting your babies self soothe themselves to sleep? any tips? my LO is 8 months, i’ve always had to walk/bounce/put her on my chest to get her to nap or down for the night since she was a nb. she never took to a pacifier.. tried a lot and just didn’t find one she liked to keep in her mouth. will it be impossible without a pacifier?