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Ppd VS sleep deprivation

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WingingIt2025 · 08/05/2025 08:45

Just after some advice. My LO is 17 weeks old. We've had a rough start to our journey with a traumatic birth ( emergency csection), LO having silent reflux which was weeks of living on pure adrenaline until his diagnosis with the constant screaming, and then myself then requiring spinal surgery due to a herniated disc all in the space of 3 months.

We have now hit what i believe is the 4 month sleep regression and i am exhausted. Im not getting more than 2 consecutive hours of sleep and no matter how early i go to bed or how many naps i take i just cant get ontop of it. I dont think theres a day gone by i havent cried since having my son, i still feel im recovering from both surgeries and its so hard being in pain every day. My partner is amazing, he truly is but im the one up all night and caring for a screaming child all day. I just feel helpless atm and im not sure if this is ppd or down to sleep deprivation

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BabyMrSun325 · 09/05/2025 12:41

I was the same at your stage (including the reflux!!). It wasn't depression, it was pure exhaustion and sheer sleep deprivation. 2 things we did closer to 5 months which saved me was we sleep trained and we got a part time help.

We live abroad and have no family anyway so until that point, we had never had any help whatsoever, not even for 30 minutes. My life transformed almost overnight. Just to have someone take the baby for a few hours helped so much. And the sleep training meant we all got 6 hours of sleep consistently which felt amazing.

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