5 month old

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Hi guys, does anyone else have a baby that won't let you put them down? I can't get anything done and my back and shoulders are in bits. She even cries in her car seat and pram, so I don't get a break.

Yes yes yes yes yes and yes except they've grown up now and I remember that exact phase and I can promise you it will get better.

Thank you for your reply, it doesn't feel like it will get better. Can you remember when it did? She doesn't nap much in the day and usually will only go down from 10pm onwards and wake at 5/6am is this normal? Thanks

Take her for a drive that always got mine to sleep, park up leave the engine on if you can afford it and enjoy a coffee! Also I BF so that always lulled him. But if not the car was 100% a winner.

I guess what I'm trying to say is enjoy her now she won't be this small forever it's so easy to get bogged down in it all (the lord only knows I was) and I wish I could go back now and just relax. Yes it's tough. It passes. Don't count down the days until it gets better. There was no lightbulb moment for me. Just gradual gradual until one day you think... hey this is quite pleasant 😂

I hear you but it's so hard to go with the flow. She's been really poorly with an inflamed gut, milk allergy and reflux, so she's always been unsettled and cried constantly day and night. She settled down about a week ago and slept a solid 5 hours straight and was more pleasant in the evenings. The last 5 nights, she's woken every hour/half hour and crying in the evening. I felt like I've survived months of crying and unsettled behavior to have it start again, and it's so hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel now.

I totally get that. I really do. and I'm sorry to hear how hard it is. Please message me on here when the light comes, because I promise it will. Power through day by day, do what you got to do, try to get some me time. Honestly one of mine cried what felt like for a whole year solid I thought what on earth have I done but babies are meant to be hard - that's why it takes a villiage to raise a child. We all have these high expectations due to pampers adverts but the reality is nothing like that. Some babies are harder than others. Some cry more than others. Go out for a walk carrying her or in pram. dealing with it outside always took the edge off for me.

DD2 had very bad reflux, and I vividly remember the screaming, and the exhaustion, both mental and physical. What's she on for the milk allergy and the reflux?

If breastfed, have you eliminated soya as well as dairy? The proteins are fairly similar, so some babies react to both. If formula fed, which formula? Some are only partly broken down, which might not be enough for her.

For the reflux, has the dose been adjusted recently? DD2's always got worse after a growth spurt, until we got an accurate weight and updated the dose. Has she started being more active at all, rolling, wanting to sit on your knee, etc.? (For a long time, if DD2 was on her tummy, she'd be sick within 10 seconds, absolutely guaranteed – but as long as her medication was right, there was no pain, and she wasn't bothered. Just generated a lot of washing. Sitting up or standing were nearly as bad.)

Hi, I'm not breast-feeding as I tried and tried, but she wouldn't, so she's on nutramigen formula and omeprazole for her reflux plus Gaviscon in her last bottle at night. She's under a consultant so her dosage is altered due to weight gain. I'm waiting for a dietitian's appointment to discuss her milk and introducing dairy. I've been told she will only settle down once she's fully on solids which is a way off.