Tell me I'm not alone!

[usagimoon]

I feel very tired and agitated at the moment, I've been up since half 3 with my little 11 week old one!
She woke for a feed, we had a lovely cuddle, boob to sleep etc, I put her down, ready to get some zzzz... she then has a big puke and a poonami. I get her out her cot, change her, proceeds to puke on fresh clothes. Poos all over the Muslin, another nappy change.
I blearily eyed put the dirty sheets back on her cot by mistake 🙈
Every time I wipe her face and her face she does another drooly posset.
She then decided it's gurgle talky play time!
I exhausted at this point and just lie there listening, feel awful that I feel so grumpy, and I've just realised it'a now 7am.
Now giving her a cuddle and hopefully a bit of boob to sleep so I can try and get some more sleep!
The point of the post is, sometimes you feel you're nailing motherhood (few weeks ago she was sleeping from midnight to 6!) and then going straight down to sleep if she had her feed etc. please tell me I'm not alone in night time disasters haha! I think this is the worst one I've had and it can really feel like it's only happening to you when it's dark and you're knackered! I've been feeling really grumpy the past few days and I hate myself for it!

That does sound like a bad night, hopefully a one off and it can only get better. I have a 12 week old and finding the sleep deprivation so hard. Mine goes well between feeds but doesn't seem to settle enough and thrashes around so that leaves me wide awake!

Hope you managed to get some sleep? X

Zero sleep argh! I tried but she also did the thrashing around thing! It's hard isn't it when you feel so tired! 😵‍💫😵‍💫

Ohhh yesss. I am with you. Currently have a 4 and a half month old who is going through teething and a sleep regression. Managed to get him to sleep finally at 9pm, but made the mistake of couging so up we were Had about 10 minutes sleep and he was awake again crying, laughing, crying, laughing. Got him back down and he decides to do a huge poo, all over his crib and himself. Up again, sort that out, spit up all over the bed. Then his dad starts snoring and we repeat again until he wants a feed.

Totally with you - I'm like a zombie. Luckily I'm on mat leave with no other children so I cna grab a nap when he does later but I am definitely feeling it'd survival mode today

Oh I feel you!! My OH decided to snore too just when I thought I was drifting off! Definitely survival here mode too.

Also it's so awful isn't it when you need to cough as you know it'll wake baby up! 😂

It is tricky, isn't it. I was listening to the Sara Pascoe Episode of the "Parenting Hell" podcast, who described this period as being in some kind of constant delirium. We took our 11 week old on a mini day trip on Saturday and then she stayed up most of the night to Sunday, processing the day, kicking about next to me on the bed. Then, last night we got a 5 hour stretch, except DH woke me up tapping me at 1am saying "there there". I assume he meant to do it to the baby, although I'm glad he didn't because she was fast asleep. Maybe that's why they say to have them on the opposite side of you to the father 🤣. Then when she did wake for her feed, I couldn't get back to sleep for 90 mins and she was up 45 mins later for the next round.