I hope its okay to post here - I could really do with some help/advice/morale. I had my first child 8 weeks ago and I've struggled a lot to adjust to life with a baby, in part I know this is my hormones/lack of sleep/change in life but mostly its her crying. She cries most of the time she is awake and not feed, its so distressing and exhausting. She is 95% of the time inconsolable and either cries herself to sleep or stops for a short time and starts again. The GP diagnosed her with colic and obviously said we just to wait it out. She is BF but I had to start using formula in the evenings becsuse shes too hysterical to feed (and taked the bottle no questions). I have tried everything - massage, cutting out dairy for two weeks, baths, gripe water, infacol, corelief, white noise, swaddling etc and while she soothes for a bit nothing has stopped her crying. Its horrendous to hear her in such distress but its also hard to bond with her when she is crying so much. The rare moments I do get are wonderful but fleeting. I know these are supposed to be phases but its so hard to see any improvement - if anything she is getting worse, now crying excessively in the morning as well as in the evening. My husband is wfh and does all he can to help out but obviously its mostly me with the baby. Family and friends are obviously unable to help much during the lockdown (and my husband is very paranoid about COVID so will not bend the rules to have anyone near her - which I ofc understand but I am at my wits end). I feel so isolated because its so hard to admit youre struggling with motherhood when others seem to find it so amazing and have such chilled babies.
After she screamed her way through the 6 week check up the lovely GP asked how I was and I fell apart, leading to him perscribing me some medication for PND - though im not sure if thats what I have or if the situation is just extremely hard to cope with. Is anyone else experiencing this? Do you have any advice?
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Totters123 · 18/06/2020 22:22
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