My gorgeous and long-awaited second baby is just over 5 months old and seemed a quiet, happy, placid baby for the first 3 months or so....but what a difference in the last 8 weeks or so!! Firstly, I decided to try and get her to take a bottle of formula milk during the day to get her used to it. Well, she steadfastly refused to take it and since then I've tried every single bottle/teat on the market, along with every type of formula milk (warm/cold) and with all my friends and family feeding her and she still refused it.....so I gave up on that although in iself this is difficult because she feeds every 4 hours (including through the night still) and it means I can't take a break and get my dh to feed her. On top of this, I have been visiting a gym since she was 3 months and leaving her (happily!) in the creche. Well, for the past 4 occasions she has screamed non-stop to the point that they have had to call me back to the creche and so I've had to cancel my gym because she won't stay there anymore. Surely she's too young to have separation anxiety??
I feel at the end of my tether - I'm also very worried because I have a nursery place booked for her for 2 days a week from September and I just don't know how she's going to be able to go...I have visions of them chucking her out!!
I feel so exhausted - my eldest dd was such an easy, adaptable baby and now I feel she's being pushed to the back because i have to spend every minute with my new baby otherwise she screams. She won't even let me leave the room and she won't play on her gym or with her toys unless I'm sat with her. I feel like I can't see any light at the moment. Why is she like this - is there something wrong with her or have I made her feel insecure in some way?? I just don't know what to do. I'm desperate to spend some quality time with my eldest and with my dh (who works and is out of the house from 7am to 8pm each day!).... help!!!!
She is still breastfedd