DD2 has just turned 7 weeks and I am really struggling with getting her to sleep-both day and night! Her sleep is no better than the day she was born, in fact worse!
The only way we can get her to sleep in the day is via the baby carrier, but it can take up to an hour to get her sleep and by then It's often time for a next feed. And god forbid if we sit down, need to be in constant motion! She used to sleep in arms after much rocking but now just squirms and wriggles. Never appears to feed to asleep or if she does, her eyes ping open five minutes later.
Night is just basically a big old mess. I give a bf at around 7 or 8 and then hand over to DH who takes her for a few hours so I can get a few hours sleep until her next feed. From then until morning it's one big blur of feeding, trying to get her back to sleep and then settling her. If I do manage to get her down she tends to wake 45 minutes later. She also never seems to get into any kind of peaceful sleep. Longest stretch she did once was 2 hours. She is also constantly squirming and wriggling before eventually crying out, and appears to suffer terribly with wind.
I feel like i literally spend the whole day and night getting DD2 to sleep so she isn't an overtired and screaming mess but with DD1 who is 2.7 to look after I'm just finding it all so unsustainable and overwhelming. I feel I'm completely neglecting DD2. Even the simplest of tasks seem impossible with a baby that wants to be constantly held or will wake at the drop of a hat.
I 'wake up' (never really been to sleep) anxious every morning and cry daily at the enormity of it all and wish for our old life back as a threesome which sounds awful. I just can't see the wood from the trees at the minute.
Sorry for the long post. But just wondering whether anyone had any advice or been int he same position.
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