I'm a new mum. My son is 11 weeks old. He is amazing. I love him more than I could ever have imagined. I'm just finding it so hard. In front of everyone else I put on a brave face. I'm not the type of person to open up to others and cry. My son is very good. He has slept 6/7 hours at night from about 8 weeks, but I can never sleep straight away so it takes me an hour sometimes to sleep. The only problem is that in the day he only sleeps for a maximum of 20 minutes so I can't even nap in the day. I'm so scared of mentioning it to anyone as I don't want people to think I'm an unfit mum but when my husband is at work and my son has his little cat naps I'm in tears. Mainly because I am so tired and I know he will be awake again in 20 minutes and I can't get to sleep in that time let alone have a quick cat nap myself. This has taken me every strength in my body to write but I also miss who I used to be. Then I cry more because I feel guilty that I feel this way when I have such a precious little boy who I wouldn't change for anything! Am I feeling this way because I'm sleep deprived? I'm so scared if it is anything worse as I don't want anyone thinking I can't cope.
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