First post on here but have been a long time lurker in the shadows.
In December I gave birth to my second child, it turned out when he was born he had a life threatening condition and an operation at 22hours old to fix it. Since then we have had to spend multiple stays in hospital (he had 11 operations in 20 weeks). We are now 9 weeks clear of any hospital admissions which has been lovely.
The problem is he is the most miserable baby. He cries and cries all day long unless you have 100% focus on him. He has an older brother who is almost 4 who was and is the most laid back easy going child, however I am just really struggling with DS2. He's fine if we are out the house but I work from home and I physically can't spend every second of the day out of the house especially with all the Covid stuff going on.
He cries when he's hungry, tired, he's screaming as soon as he wakes up from a nap too. He's awake at 5am and goes to bed around 8pm so it's a very long day to feel like my focus has to be on him the whole time.
I feel terrible to admit it but life was so lovely and easy before he came along and now the whole world has been turned upside down and I'm struggling to enjoy him (obviously I love him a lot, he's just difficult!)
Please tell me I'm not alone and I'm sorry for rambling I just needed an outlet!
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Struggling to enjoy being around my baby
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sofakingawesome · 30/06/2020 17:53
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