Broken newborn

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I have a 5 week old and today she has been awake from 9am. She is still awake. She’s officially broken!

Do you still have the receipt?

There was the odd day with mine where she was literally wide awake for hours and hours. I scoured the Internet for answers but it just made me feel bad because it said babies of that age should only be awake for like an hour at a time?!
We eventually got into a routine of rocking to sleep but I remember it being quite traumatic for a while.

No real words of wisdom just long distance support

Dark room, white noise, movement and boob!

Im sorry Im zero help but I just came on to say my 7 week old has been the same today (and not much better yesterday). Horrendous isn’t it!
I tried everything, a pram and walk is normally the saviour but I took him out for an hour today and he slept for about 10 minutes of it 😩
my partner is still trying to settle him now.
Fingers crossed we both have better days tomorrow!
Was she awake and content or awake and overtired/screaming?

@Latinorapida please don’t assume we are all able to breast feed.

She wasn’t even in a bad mood or crying any more than normal. She just didn’t fancy sleeping! She’s been fine since so must be fixed

An off button or at least volume control would be a great genetic new trait...

Hey op, chill out. I wasn’t making an assumption, I was just listing all the things I could think of that helped my son sleep in the early early days in the event that some of those might work for you too. Thought I was being helpful

I struggled greatly with breastfeeding in the early days and my son got the majority of his milk from formula and it took months and months for it to work. But even if I couldn’t breastfeed at all, if someone made a breastfeeding related suggestion which was not applicable to me, I would’ve just said ‘oh I don’t breastfeed so I can’t use that trick’ but thanks for the suggestions. But hey, that’s just me x

Most women can breastfeed. A lot give up at the first sign of an issue because no one is allowed to criticise and we just have to keep repeating ‘fed is best’. 🙄 Apologies if you’re in the tiny minority of women who genuinely can’t breastfeed, and I’m sure you’ll tell me you are. Chances are you’re not though.

@Stepstepmother

Most women can breastfeed. A lot give up at the first sign of an issue because no one is allowed to criticise and we just have to keep repeating ‘fed is best’. 🙄 Apologies if you’re in the tiny minority of women who genuinely can’t breastfeed, and I’m sure you’ll tell me you are. Chances are you’re not though.

But fed is best?! Comments like this are what make women feel like " bad mums" when they are the complete opposite. Happy mum happy baby, judgy mum on an app..... annoying.

I couldn’t breastfeed - well, maybe I could but nothing I tried worked, and it would have upset me to have someone say ‘boob.’

I am not starting a row, just sympathising with op!

Tbf I’m not happy about feeding formula.

Most women can breastfeed. A lot give up at the first sign of an issue because no one is allowed to criticise and we just have to keep repeating ‘fed is best’

So true.