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16 week old feel like I’m doing everything wrong

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AwkwardAsAllGetout · 30/07/2019 16:46

Dd is 16 weeks and I’d my fourth so really I should have this baby thing down. But I really, really don’t. She’s been incredibly hard work since birth and I’m starting to feel I’ve made the old rod for my own back in many ways. She’s had dreadful colic which seems to be subsiding a little thank goodness but it means we’ve been consleeping just to get some rest. I’m starting to really want some space though, as soon as I try and move away her eyes ping open and she takes an age to settle back down. She spends all night nursing. We’ve tried to get her to take a bottle but she never has, and won’t take a dummy either so I feel like a walking, talking baby pacifier. And I HATE feeling this way. I managed to go out for two hours at the weekend while dh looked after her, and predictably came home to her screaming. I’ve tried going on an allergen free diet, I’ve tried a cranial osteopath and tbh she just seems a really grumpy baby. I feel like I’ve spent the last four months chained to her as she literally won’t be put down. As a result we have no routine at all and I really want to change that. How do I go about putting her down for naps and bedtime when I’ve been nursing her to sleep? I feel totally lost

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