I'm a mum to an 8 week old and a 4 year old. 8 week old is breastfed and just cries all the time. Now I know that babies cry a lot, and it's hard to always determine a reason, but I just feel like ours is unsettled all the time. We're finding the juggle of normal day-to-day life (cooking meals, doing the washing up, keeping on top of the washing) and also giving time to our 4 year old incredibly hard. And that's without even doing any cleaning or anything else that needs doing. We feel so guilty that can't spend more time playing with the 4 year old, and as a result he's stated attention seeking which I can't blame him for.
What makes it worse is that the couple next door have a baby the same age and have said that he doesn't really cry. Husband just overheard him telling someone they can come round now that their son has had a 7 hour nap! Ours has napped for 1 hour max off and on today which means he's either been glued to me most of the day, or has been screaming.
Is this really normal?!!! With my firstborn I had the time to spend ages getting him to sleep, walking around with him, rocking him etc, but with this one I just don't have the time to dedicate to getting him to nap. And if I do, inevitably the 4 year old has an outburst and wakes him up.
Not sure what I'm looking for here, anyone else been through this? Am I doing it completely wrong?! Please be kind 🙏