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DoneItAllWrong · 18/10/2007 07:02

ok, as my name change states, i've done it all wrong so please don't lecture me, I am shredded and on the edge of breaking down.
I have started full time work but I work from home. DS is a year old. I share his care with his dad. DS came late to solids, not for lack of trying from me. He does eat solids now but often refuses, pushes the spoon away, and for a quiet life in the short term i just plug him on. perhaps becaue he isn't enough solid food in the day he wakes a lot at night, every two and a half hours. I am on my knees. I cna't function. It is a vicious circle. I am so tired in the morning I haven't the stength to strat the struggle of getting food in him in the high chair and so it goes on.
I want to be feeding him morning, midday and last thing at night. I don't want to stop breast feeding. However, i can't continue as I am. We co-sleep, i ned to wean him off that too but am so tied don't know how to begin.
I am in pieces.

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JackOLANTERNstini · 18/10/2007 10:49

Will not lecture - not what you need at all!
Will ask some questions though so we can help you better.
Are you able to express at all so someone else can do a feed for you?
Have you tried baby led weaning with finger food so ds feels more in control than spoon feeding?
You don't necessarily 'need' to wean him off co-sleeping but if you want to you can. Have you tried controlled crying yet? What happens if you try and put ds in his own cot?
On another part, do you mean you are actually trying to work from home full time with ds there all day? IMHO I don't think this is sustainable at all. No wonder you are knackered.
(I also wfh ft and dh looks after dd, 18mo, 2 days a week here - it is useful if I want to feed her midday but hard for her to understand that Mummy is at work and can't be disturbed. The other 3 days she is in nursery)

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