Not necessarily looking for advice just a hand hold and for someone to tell me this will get better!
Just had my second DC, she’s 5 weeks. My DS was DIFFICULT, as a first time mum it was a total shock to the system. He was a total 4th trimester baby, and we coslept, breastfed and baby wore our way for the first 3 months. I am under no illusions that newborns are easy, and was more than prepared to do it all again but now I’ve had DD she is just something else.
She just will not sleep during the day, no matter what I do. I have literally tried everything there is. She screams in a pram/car till she’s wet with sweat. Won’t sleep in the cot or sleepyhead. Won’t sleep in a swing or chair. I’m more than happy to hold her while she sleeps but she won’t even sleep then for more than 20/30mins at a push. Even in the sling she wakes after 45 mins. She is constantly knackered and cries ALL DAY LONG. She won’t even lie down and sleep with me during the day co sleeping. Literally nothing works. I know she’s overtired and needs more sleep but she just won’t sleep not matter what I do. I’ll rock her/bounce her for ages, she’ll close her eyes and then it’d like you can physically see her body fighting it. She squirms and almost doubles over in my arms trying to burrow in. It’s like she just cannot relax enough to actually go to sleep.
It’s soul destroying hearing her cry all day and watching her be unsettled. And you never get a break because she doesn’t nap. Life feels miserable right now and I just can’t help feeling how unfair it is that my baby is like this and other people get it easier ( which I know is ridiculous but I can’t help it)
Someone tell me this won’t be forever.
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Newborn constantly overtired- tell me it gets better
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FortheloveofJames · 21/11/2019 14:06
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