Ok, my baby is only 6 days old but he's developed a very worrying pattern already. People keep telling me to "sleep when the baby sleeps" which is fine and I agree but no one told DS this and he thinks when he sleeps, I should hold him, constantly. During the day he's fine to chill in his Moses basket for a while but at night he cluster feeds from 10pm to 8am on average and in between he screams his head off if I dare to put him down and attempt to close my eyes. I love him but it's pure torture getting no sleep at all at night, it's making me ill and I'm scared I'll either fall asleep holding him and hurt him or get really sick and not be able to care for him. (I have a lower immune system as it is). Any advice would be appreciated but please be nice as I'm new to all this and very hormonal and sleep deprived.
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