LDC
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2011
- Messages
- 3,940
- Reaction score
- 0
I seriously can't handle the lack of sleep anymore.
LO has been waking up every hour to hour and a half for the past two weeks. She's started sleeping longer in the afternoon (about two hours) and that's about it.
Do I have some kind of nocturnal child?!
I've tried everything I can think of and nothing. I've used suggestions from you lovely ladies from previous threads and nothing.
She doesn't even cry unless I leave her, she just wakes up and fusses then if I don't go to her after a while she starts to cry.
She's a bottle/dummy refuser and I'm even getting to the point where I wish I hadn't started breast feeding, just so oh can get up with her and I can have some time to myself to sleep.
Oh works full time, but then now he's in bed. He was off yesterday and isn't back in work until Tuesday night. I've been up every hour with her since 12am. She went to bed at 9:30pm.
I seriously can't do it anymore. I can't function properly and I've no desire to sit with her whilst she's just messing around being awake when she should be asleep. That's just awful because she's perfect and makes me feel like a terrible mother
I just sit and cry sometimes because I feel like I can't cope.
Noone offers to help or watch her so I can sleep. Oh usually gets out of bed on his day off but he obviously hasn't and has stayed in bed. I can't do it 24/7 anymore.
I thought it was the growth spurt but it seems to be lasting forever and then there's the 4 month regression. It makes me feel sick thinking about it.
I feel like the world is spinning round and I don't even know what's happening, like I don't know who I am anymore or what my marriage is about. I dont see my friends much because they're always working and when they do offer to come round I have no desire to see them; I can't be bothered to talk or make conversation and that usually means that I have to "get ready" when frankly, I couldn't give two hoots about what I look like.
I love my baby to bits, don't think I realised just how hard it was going to be.
LO has been waking up every hour to hour and a half for the past two weeks. She's started sleeping longer in the afternoon (about two hours) and that's about it.
Do I have some kind of nocturnal child?!
I've tried everything I can think of and nothing. I've used suggestions from you lovely ladies from previous threads and nothing.
She doesn't even cry unless I leave her, she just wakes up and fusses then if I don't go to her after a while she starts to cry.
She's a bottle/dummy refuser and I'm even getting to the point where I wish I hadn't started breast feeding, just so oh can get up with her and I can have some time to myself to sleep.
Oh works full time, but then now he's in bed. He was off yesterday and isn't back in work until Tuesday night. I've been up every hour with her since 12am. She went to bed at 9:30pm.
I seriously can't do it anymore. I can't function properly and I've no desire to sit with her whilst she's just messing around being awake when she should be asleep. That's just awful because she's perfect and makes me feel like a terrible mother
I just sit and cry sometimes because I feel like I can't cope.
Noone offers to help or watch her so I can sleep. Oh usually gets out of bed on his day off but he obviously hasn't and has stayed in bed. I can't do it 24/7 anymore.
I thought it was the growth spurt but it seems to be lasting forever and then there's the 4 month regression. It makes me feel sick thinking about it.
I feel like the world is spinning round and I don't even know what's happening, like I don't know who I am anymore or what my marriage is about. I dont see my friends much because they're always working and when they do offer to come round I have no desire to see them; I can't be bothered to talk or make conversation and that usually means that I have to "get ready" when frankly, I couldn't give two hoots about what I look like.
I love my baby to bits, don't think I realised just how hard it was going to be.