feeling completely touched out and fed up

[enormouse]

Just need to rant really.

My 4 month old has hit a sleep regression and seems to be cluster feeding all the time, especially at night. I also have a (non bfing) 2.7 year old who always wants to be on me. Literally, physically sat on me, not just next to me. Whenever he sees me he clambers onto me.

I just feel fed up and want to have 5 minutes where there's not a small demanding thing either attached to or sat on me, informing me where my nose is. I feel awful for DS1 as I have to pull him off me and sit him down next to me. I even feel annoyed at DP as he's (in my mind) doing the most irritating things possible. He's not, it just feels like he is.

Please tell me it gets better.

It will of course get better.

I remember the sleep regression (although for me there wasn't much good sleep to regress on really!) and it was so tough.

After your next feed can you just pass it all to DH for a bit and go out somewhere grown up for a quiet and touch free coffee?

I literally walked out at about the 4 month mark and went for a glass of wine, I hadn't been alone for 4 months straight and it does send you a bit loopy.

Take care.

Thanks for replying.

Dp just sent me upstairs after I showed him this thread and said he'll bring some food and a cup of tea up whilst he deals with the DSes.
So I'm going to relax for a bit with some iPlayer and tea.

I just feel drained by the relentlessness (is that a word?) of it all.

Being touched out was probably the hardest part of baby raising for me, so I sympathise. I often felt like I wanted everyone to sod off and leave me alone.

I'm glad you've got some time to yourself.

Relentless is a word I use a lot OP when describing my home life

Thanks again for helping me get some perspective on this. Luckily, Dp is very understanding and will take both of them regularly. And family lunch tomorrow so very obliging PIL will take both boys for a bit and a workshop on Thursday so I'll get some child free time then. Cannot wait.

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Good to hear. The moments when it's all just too much seem so very bad but then it starts to look ok again. Think it's the exhaustion makes perspective so so hard. Have a good evening.