Mental health starting to suffer from lack of sleep and exhaustion

[OmniumGatherum]

Anyone else experience this?

My little one is 9 months and unfortunately his sleep just goes from bad to worse. I don't know how I'm supposed to cope with the ongoing sleep deprivation. I'm utterly exhausted all the time. My whole body aches. And my mental health is really starting to suffer - during the night and bedtime routine, particularly. I feel broken. We've tried everything. I don't want to feel so miserable as I love my baby and he's such a blessing, but I just don't know how much longer I can do this for.

Anyone going through or been through the same thing? Any glimmers of hope?

Thank you for reading. I just needed to get this out as I can't tell anyone how bad I feel sometimes.

Desperate bump

I’ve been there, it’s so hard.

is it just you or do you have a partner to share the load?

can anyone take the baby for a while - if not overnight, coming over first thing in the morning so you can get a few uninterrupted hours? My mum wasn’t up for overnight babysitting but was happy to occasionally show up and take over from the early morning and that can be a lifesaver.

is baby waking for a feed or just generally a poor sleeper?

Sleep consultant?

Have you looked at Kelly’s mom page ? Some good info about sleep
take a look at wake windows and nap times

understand the lack of sleep desperately, I turned to cosleeping so I actually got some sleep I literally was getting sleep deprived paranoia of things that had not happened !

now im trying to get out of cosleeping so mini can maybe sleep in cot? Here’s hoping !

I see you,it’s hard, your doing such an amazing job

I've been there. Controlled crying fixed it for us, but it was brutal. She cried for hours.

Thank you all so much for taking the tying to reply. It means a huge amount.