Please someone reassure me.
My baby is 6 weeks old. When he was born we were admitted for a week as he had an infection, we came home for 2 weeks and was admitted again for another infection. Since then we have been back to the paediatric unit on two separate occasions due to his sleeping pattern and being very irritable. The first doctor advised the baby had reflux and prescribed medicine which gave him constipation and the second doctor advised he didnt have reflux but did have colic and took him off the tablets and told us to ride it out.
Inbetween all this going on hes generally a terrible napper in the day and can get by on very little sleep such as all day awake and the odd 30 mins nap here and there. Sometimes he can nap fantastically. His night sleep is similar. Good days and bad days. He can be happy smiling on the floor one minute then kicking off the next. He will literally smile and then his next facial expression hes crying. He seems to whinge constantly. I find it very frustrating and sometimes feel as though im failing as a mother because he just dosent seem to be happy. My husband and I feel like we have no support as we are first time parents and unable to have anyone in the house due to this lockdown. Health visitors only available by phone. We are both close with our parents and finding this isolation very taxing. Along with being knackered and still finding our feet
I know all this is completely normal and do feel if it wasnt for the lockdown I could cope a little better. We do go for walks a few times a day but its just around the block and not the same as packing the car up for the day.
Please someone talk nice things to me whilst I dwell in my own self pity. Xxx