Firstly I apologise for this post as it's me feeling sorry for myself and moaning.
I'm a new mum to my beautiful 10 day old DS and I feel like I am not doing very well.
Today he has spent all afternoon (from 12ish - 5) screaming with occasional 10 minute bursts of sleep. My DH has finally rocked him to sleep. I am currently sat anxiously watching his crib waiting for him to cry again. I just feel so clueless and pathetic. I know some of it is down to hormones but I have spent much of the past few days crying and frantically googling for answers from everything from feeding to sleep routines.
We had a rocky start as I've struggled to breast feed due to my baby having tongue tie and me having flat nipples so now am trying to express breast milk with a crappy Tommee Tippee hand pump and giving that to DS alongside formula.
I read so many books while I was pregnant on what to do when the baby was here but just fee overwhelmed and confused. Everyone else seems to cope brilliantly and have happy babies and I just feel like I'm failing massively and that the poor mite hasn't got the mummy he deserves.
I don't know what I'm expecting by posting this - I know rationally that babies just cry sometimes and that there are a lot of new mums worse off than me but just felt the need to write something down. Does this get easier?
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singingpinkmonkey · 23/01/2017 18:38
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