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Help. How to get through newborn phase

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Iammeltin · 01/12/2024 19:04

My DD is 3 weeks tomorrow and I’m finding the days so dull. It’s feed poo sleep. I like to get out for about 10 minutes but some days it’s hard when she’s feeding.
When does it get better?
How can I get through each day/week?
When does she stop looking like a potato?

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Lijay1 · 01/12/2024 20:02

First of all can you get out for longer than 10 minutes? What's happening to mean you have to come back home after that? I'm out for hours with mine, but he is my second so I appreciate I have previous practice. That makes the biggest difference for me. Learn to feed out of the house.

They smile at 6 weeks ISH that makes a massive difference to them seeming more than a potato. From then on they just interact more and more.

Holesinsnow · 01/12/2024 20:58

Yes it will get better.
Getting out and about did wonders for my mental health. Do you have any friends with babies? Maybe a trip to a local cafe might help? It was a revelation to me how busy my local cafes and even bars got with all the buggies and babies on a wet weekday morning. Really helped me feel relaxed enough to bf in public.

Soon longer and more regular sleep cycles will come and you can plan (a bit) around that.
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Pandasnacks · 01/12/2024 21:00

Why only for 10 minutes? Id get out for longer, jt adds routine and feels much better

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mindutopia · 01/12/2024 21:06

It is really boring! Honestly, there will be a lot of years in the future when you can’t just sit down. If you can now, work your way through a box set or films you want to watch or a book while you sit on the sofa and feed her or hold her while she naps.

If you do want to get out each day, feed her and then when she’s done and starting to drift off to sleep, pop her straight in the pushchair and go out for a walk. Stop and get a coffee on the way to take with you or have one already prepared in a flask. She will fuss a bit going into the pushchair but will go to sleep with pushing. Plan to feed her out. Quiet cafes or the library were good spots to stop for a feed.

Babyboomtastic · 01/12/2024 21:07

If it's dull, then do things that YOU want to do with baby in tow.

In 9m time after be crawling everywhere trying to put everything in her mouth. Gone will be chilling out whilst she naps in your arms in a coffee shop, or wandering around the shops with her in a sling. Or more, you can do those things if lucky during naps when she's older, but you have to pick your time. Then it's parks and soft plays.

There are challenges of the early days, but you are also in control of where your go and when, with a very portable human who only wants to be close to you.

If you stay at home all the time then it's going to be dull. Go places, see people, do things you normally don't have the chance to do because of work. And yes, you'll see half as much in twice as long, but it doesn't matter because you have oodles of time.

Boob or burke, you can feed anywhere. Boob is easier for mobile feeding. I fed on a plane, theme park rides, on the bus, supermarket (whilst shopping, yay for sling feeding). Bottle takes more organisation, but so many coffee shops, random park benches, wherever.

As time goes you'll get more confidence to parent wherever your are, rather than just at home.

Kitkat1523 · 01/12/2024 21:08

Yes it can be very boring and repetitive….try to get out every day for longer than 10 mins…..a cou of hours will break the day up…..unless you got visitors

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