My little girl is only a week and a half old, and I'm already feeling completely overwhelmed and useless.
She's a little star and I love her so much it actually hurts. I just feel completely overwhelmed by the responsibility of looking after her. I'm so tired and I feel like she thinks I'm just useless. My husband is absolutely amazing with her - she'll cry on me for ages and then will calm down/fall asleep on him instantly. He goes back to work next week and I'm bloody terrified, to be honest.
DD hasn't been a great sleeper the past few days - kind of dozes fitfully for an hour at a time then she's squawking and crying to be picked up. Through the night she'll have her bottle and will be very awake and alert, no interest in going back to sleep (and when she does again it's just an hour at a time) but I understand this is quite normal. Difficult to cope with sometimes though. The house is a mess, I can't get anything done because the baby is awake and looking to be held all the time (she won't lie on her playmat awake, she just gets upset, but we're going to try a bouncy chair later today - husband going out to buy it this afternoon).
She's eating really well and the midwife and HV are really pleased with how she's doing but I think she has an issue with wind (we spend ages winding her after every feed, using infacol and dr browns bottles but we seem to be unable to get it all up - I dunno what else to do) so her tummy hurts and I think this is what is causing her to be so wakeful. She's formula fed and is quite constipated. Trying the water thing but finding it so hard to stay on top of sterilising bottles and then she won't take the water, she stops sucking (and pulls the cutest little disgusted face) as soon as she realises it isn't milk.
Sorry I know this is a bit of a senseless rant but I'm so teary and I just feel like she hates me and I'm so crap at this. I know logically that everything is ok and we're just new at this. I feel so guilty for feeling like his because she's awesome and we're so lucky to have her.
Any advice..?
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DaphneMoon1 · 03/02/2015 13:50
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