Anyone elses EBF baby sleep like mine 😅

Baby is 4.5 months old and our naps have always been terrible, the max she has ever napped for is 1.5 hours, but the last month her day naps have all looked like this. She won't be resettled when she wakes up and can't seem to drift off on her own....any tips on getting her to self soothe? We can't seem to soothe her in her cot at all, she just screams, or falls asleep for one minute then wakes up upset! She won't keep a dummy in either.
Some bedtimes are also taking up to six hours because of this, but if I try to reset by taking her downstairs, we start bedtime again and it could take hours again!
She also won't fall asleep in the car or buggy, only on me and occasionally being rocked with a dummy by only me or my partner😅

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Exhausted

My boy is 7 weeks old breast fed baby and his sleep is so scattered. He’ll have a night with 3 hour stretches of sleep in his bassinet and then other nights that he absolutely refuses it. I’m writing this post at 7am and I’ve been up since midnight because he will only sleep on me and I’m too nervous to fall asleep if he’s on me. Not looking for advice, believe me I’ve tried absolutely everything. Just looking for mamas in a similar situation to know I’m not alone.

Does your husband change your daughters diaper?

Mine avoids it and makes all kinds of excuses but he will change our son's.

Sterilisation

Looking to hear about other people's experiences on sterilisation. I was sterilised on Saturday. Before I went in I was told the surgery will take roughly 30 mins and the pain would be minimal. However it took 2 and half hours and the pain has been excruciating, I'm also getting more swollen since its been done and bleeding more vaginally (but not heavily) I ended up staying in over night because my blood pressure dropped drastically, and I wasn't responding to any of the pain medication. I have no explanation for any of this, as I was moved wards pretty quickly so no one from the surgical team spoke to me afterwards, and i have only my discharge notes to go by, which state everything was normal and went well. Did anyone else end up in an unexpected amount of pain? How long did it last? I've been told I can't lift or bend for 2 weeks minimum, did anyone else manage before this?

This mama is TIRED. 🥲😭

My 9.5-month-old baby girl has been putting me THROUGH IT lately. 😂 For the last 3–4 weeks, this girl has barely slept through the night. She’s been waking up around 2–3 AM every night, and for the last week or so, she’s started waking up a SECOND time around 4–5 AM. But last night… OOOOF. 🫠
She woke up at 3 AM, I changed her diaper and offered her a bottle. She drank an ounce and fell back asleep, so I laid her back down. About 45 minutes later, she was awake AGAIN. I tried offering her the rest of her bottle, but she completely refused it and would only settle back to sleep on my chest.
I tried laying her back down, and NOPE. Immediately started crying. So I ended up lying down with her sleeping on my chest for TWO HOURS before I finally managed to transfer her to the bed without waking her up.
Now I’m running on approximately 3 hours of sleep, and this mama is STRUGGLING. 🫠😂
Has anyone else’s baby gone through something like this around 9–10 months? Is this a sleep regression, teething, separation anxiety, or is my little dictator just keeping me humble? 😭😂
PLEASE tell me this gets better! I would love to hear your experiences, tips, tricks, or literally anything that helped your little ones sleep better. I’m all ears at this point. 🥲❤️

Are we all ok?? 15 week old

My baby is constantly and aggressively coming off the breast even though I know she is probably hungry, everyone keeps saying she is more alert and distracted, makes absolutely no difference to be in a dark room, she also now only feeds for about 4 minutes on average per feed, so it feels like cluster feeding but also she must be frustrated, it’s just relentless. Some days she can cry for two hours, more wake ups in the night and can be awake for two hours or so at any time in the night, no pattern to it. Feeling soo drained by it all.

Combi feeding

Is anyone able to give me advice on how to do this from birth please. My first was formula only but I really want to make an attempt if I can, I just know I won’t be able to handle the whole shabang and sometimes I’m just going to need the option to just hand to my partner and say make a bottle. I absolutely do not want to touch a pump (they’re terrifying to me) so Combi is what I’m going for. TIA