Sleep deprivation with 6wk old & toddler

[HoneySonny]

Anyone else awake trying to get their baby to settle? It's ok at mo as my husband is on holidays but when he's not, how am I going to cope with going to sleep about 2 & getting up at 7 for my toddler. Christmas Day night it was 4am.

I have just put my baby in her cot & she is still eating her hands. I'm so tired & don't know what she wants now.

Not up for that long anymore but 6 month old dd is refusing to go back to sleep.

I know you know this but it does get better! One day at a time and you get through it.

if BF then Co-sleep! DH has just gone in DDs room to sleep on spare bed so DS can sleep/feed from me.

If your toddler still has day naps then I used to try and get us all to nap then.

We use our savings to put DD in nursery 3 days, so she has some fun with her peers and she can play/do more than I can offer right now.

My 5 week old is still awake, it is almost 7am. I am going to lose my mind. Keep feeding, she falls really asleep, I move into cot and then bolt awake. Bit afraid of co sleeping while I'm so very tired

This is the point you do anything necessary to get sleep! Be it co-sleeping, baby in a sling, walk in pushchair, ride in car then you sleep in car once baby has fallen asleep. Seriously just do it!

Anything you do now will not form bad habits. Baby is so small they know no different and just want mummy.

I have a 5 year old (no naps) and a 6 month old. We survived the summer holidays with no help and I did it by any means possible.

Co sleep. But it gets better. You don't say what the age gap is. There is less than 2 yrs between my two. The eldest wasn't sleeping through because of stomach pains (now almost sorted thanks to an amazing consultant) and I had a baby bf too. At 6 months I had to go back to work full time. My husband works away. There were many days when I wondered how the hell I was going to stay awake.

I found putting them in my bed around 8-8:30pm with lots of books for stories helped, we would sing songs and play fishing on the bed with a belt catching imaginary fish.

At this age what they want is milk and closeness. Find the easiest way to give them that- sling, co sleep- anything tha gets the most sleep for the most people. Honestly- it will pass.

Thanks everyone for the advice & support.
Feel better it is not just me. I had to wake my husband to help as I was loosing the plot. I then co-slept after bf & she went off to sleep but I woke up with her & I sweating even though I was careful not to have the duvet around her. This scared me.
I then slept til 9:30 whilst my husband woke up with me daughter. I hope this is just a blip. It's a nightmare.

My daughter was like this and was also quite sicky. Suddenly thought it might be reflux, dr tried her on some meds and made massive difference.
Now she sleeps upright - on us, in rocking chair, on wedge in cot. Not ideal but at least I get enough sleep to deal with her brother in the day.

Try your bouncy chair instead of cot, see if it helps. If all else fails she sleeps with me.

Have a single duvet for you on the bed and a cot blanket for her. Make sure the room is nice and cool- it'll be fine.

Good idea Curlew. Spotty bra my eldest daughter is 2yrs 4 months so the age gap is 2yrs 3 months. Kibi, I'll be on this again venting tonight if the same happens. Cupcake78, my husband would be away quite a bit but thankfully not at mo. I'm wandering weather she has a bit of silent reflux as she is more settled upright. My eldest had it, she was rushed into hospital at 2wks as she choked & turned blue we had to do the heimlick on her. V scary.