I hope someone can help, I can't cope anymore, I keep telling my partner I can't cope and he's not listening to me. I keep asking my mum to come for tea when partners out And I can't cope on my own all the time and she doesn't come. I have a 5y0 boy, I was coping well until I had my second baby who is now 7 months. Now that sounds awful, I love her so much she's just such hard work. She doesn't nap, she does in the car or pram but 10-20 mins a time. She doesn't sleep at night unless my boob is in her face, even then she wakes up every half hour until 1am then hourly. This means I don't get any time at night to wind down and watch a film or anything. I've got the worst backache from feeding and carrying her around everywhere coz she won't let me put her down. This sounds real weird but I've got really small boobs so if I lie down feed I'm literally arching my back so it's in her face and I can't sleep like this and my back is so sore. For the last month her sleep has become terrible and I've had about 3 hours a night. I've got constant headaches, the shakes I'm anxious all the time and I can't string a sentence together. I have no urge to go out and spend time with my friends and I couldn't if I wanted to coz this baby is so clingy. I've tried letting her cry when I put her down, she will literally cry for hours and then she wakes up every ten minutes after this as she is distressed. I rang the breastfeeding helpline earlier as she also won't take a bottle, I was going to give up and give her formula, she's having none of it. The breastfeeding helpline just told me she didn't need a bottle and to just give her a cup but that doesn't help when she's feeding 15 times a night, I can't cup feed her back to sleep. Someone help me I'm dead. I'm ignoring my little boy all the time, I'm too tired to be a good Mum to him, I hate the person I am now and I wish I'd have bottle fed xx
Can anyone recommend any bottles/ techniques that may work to get her to have a bottle? And can anyone recommend any tactics to get her to sleep in her cot? I think she's got separation anxiety too, no she's definitely got separation anxiety. Xx