Feeling very alone with this and also quite pathetic. My 2nd baby is 4 months old. He's a happy little chap provided he is being held BUT he is an extreme velcro baby. The minute he is put down - in cot, bouncy chair, on playmat etc - he kicks off. This means I'm holding him 99% of the time, including for all naps. When DH is at work I get nothing done and have to have showers and eat meals at breakneck speed. I have him in the carrier a lot but he's now a really light sleeper so I can't really do anything with him sleeping in there, and if he's awake he hates being in there, he just wants to be held facing outward.
He will only co sleep (still wakes every 1-2 hours, might be every 3 hours on a good night), and my back and neck are wrecked from this. He is EBF and will not take a bottle. He has a dummy. He's physically very healthy and growing well.
My older child is school age so I feel pathetic complaining tbh but I honestly get nothing done, DH has to do pretty much everything alongside working. I cook, shop, meal plan and do the school runs but that's about it. When my eldest was a baby we lived in a tiny flat and I know this sounds awful and ungrateful but I genuinely found it easier as because it was so much smaller it was much quicker to clean and tidy it. We are in a house now and I find the space overwhelming and the list of jobs never ending.
Just wanted to vent really. We don't have any family nearby who could help. We had a cleaner for a little bit but I didn't really find it very useful as I had to run around tidying everything before she came anyway.