My daughter is 4 months old and I’m exhausted. Pregnancy was awful for me -/ waking up frequently due to hip pain and leg cramps, severe nausea and fatigue. I don’t feel I have slept well in a year.
Birth was hard, long hesitant labour followed by EMCS.
Terrible witching hour 5-12 weeks.
Now she is happier (smile and laughs when she wakes up for a bit and enjoys entertainment) but has a short battery life and after being awake for 30 mins - 1 hour starts whinging and stiffening her body/won’t sit happily on our lap. I breastfeed and at night she nurses well but during the day I often have to force her to eat against screaming and then she eats and takes a nap. We had one short haul flight from hell at three months and I’m meant to fly a fair bit in the next year because of work and longer haul.
I just feel like my baby needs constant entertainment. Now the sleep regression has her waking up every few hours at night to eat, too. I’m exhausted and everyone said it would get better at 12 weeks and witching hour has got better but it’s still so hard and I don’t have any time/energy to do anything for myself…