6 weeks old and I am knackered

[Loulabellesmum00]

when does it all get easier please...cannot believe people just exist without sleep for so long...I am only really sleeping maybe once a week when my mum comes to stay...am exhausted...

Why are you not managing to sleep?

It will get easier promise, first 6 weeks were hell for us but it does get easier. Hang in there.

Tbh it's swings and round abouts. Unless you have one if those majestical babies 'that sleep from the day they left hospital!' Your in this for the LNG haul!

I don't think it gets better- you just get used to it.

Just when we thought dd2 was going the whole hog, something would turn it tits up. Teething, weening, sleep regression, illness.

One blissful week dd slep from 6:30 pm to 6:30 am. It all disappeared the next week back to four hourly wakes

Were at 11 months now she still wakes for a bottle around 11pm and most nights she will go to 6:30.

The frustration at knowing she is capable for much longer is horrid - but I'm used to it now. Shouting 'Humphrey' stood up in her cot at 3:30 am in not cool!

Dig deep and sleep when they sleep during the day. Fuck the house. When dd2 was I'll and waking every hour. I fucked the house work of for a week and just lived upstairs. Slept when she slept!

It's hard work !

It is really hard. Obvious advice I know but forget housework etc when your baby sleeps lie down, even if just to doze. I had a cot with a dropped side pushed up against our bed which was great. I couldn't co sleep but it was just easy to reach over in the night if I needed too.
If your baby is crying a lot maybe ask hv about reflux? Mine had it but was gaining weight so it wasn't picked up until 8 months.

At about 8 weeks your body seems to get used to it I think, and then from a baby point of view there is a period between 8 to 12 weeks that things start to get better. Enjoy that part! Then after that it gets harder again.

I totally understand. Make the most of the sleep you get when your mum helps out. I'm on second baby 5 months in, he is still waking at 11' 3 am and sometimes 4/5. But, his toddler brother is up between 5 and 6 so.... My day starts then. Ism running on sleep vapour!

Although I'm getting less sleep with baby 2 I think I'm just more used to sleep deprivation.

It does get better, but try not to expect too much. The babies just can't sleep too long at that age, and I agree, daytime naps are hard to come by with so much else to do, and normally, by the time you nod off, baby is awake.

Big hugs and keep going. It will get better. Promise.