content fussy baby and terrible sleep schedule help please
My daughter is 7 weeks old now. For the past week and a half now she has been doing this every night. I'm going insane. It's always around 3am-9am that she is crying or fussing nonstop; she won't go to sleep until anytime between 4am-9am. Our sleeping schedule is so messed up because of this. We sleep all day and are up all night and morning and it's not healthy. I honestly don't even reelener the last time I saw daylight.. it's sad. But re so hard to wake up early and try to wake her up to fix our schedule when I run off of no sleep already .. shes up every 2-3 hours when she does sleep. And she never wakes up when I try to wake her up or keep her up. Even when she's been fed, burped, changed; tried swaddleing, will not take a bottle, has not gone to the bathroom again; switched to fussiness formula and tried gas relief and colic drops.. even when I pick her up, walk around and try to calm her down she will not stop crying. No rash, perfectly healthy, not too hot or cold.. she will not stop fussing and crying for an 3 hours now. Nothing will work. Sometimes it last 4-5 hours. The longest so far has been 8 nonstop hours. Even won't take her binky. She's driving me insane. I have to just leave her to cry sometimes. I can't take it anymore. Idk what to do. I run off of no sleep every day. And when I do sleep it's at ridiculous times. I want my life back. I'm so depressed and miserable. And I'm a stay at home doing it on my own, idk how you working mommy do it.. She's always fussing when awake. Always always. Her being awake isn't even enjoyable for me anymore. She's making me never want to have children again and I know this sounds awful, but I can't do it anymore. It's been every night and every time I do get her to sleep, the second she's put down, she's up and crying. having a baby that is always crying and fussing when she is awake is getting too exhausting for me. Im miserable. I can't get anything done anymore. I eat once a day if that (I didn't get to eat at all today), I haven't showered in days, I get no me time, I sleep when she sleeps which isn't even enough. I can't take it anymore. It sucks because the short time periods she sleeps I need to pick, do I eat, shower, sleep or do house errands. And I lose out in the other options. I'm so sick of running around doing everything on my own. It's like my life's become a relay race. She is never just awake and content and quiet. Always crying or fussing. I'm drained and have no one to help me. Idk what on earth I'm supposed to do. my SO is in the navy and is deployed for a year with no contact, I'm a SAHM. I'm so stressed. What would you recommend I do? I tried everything! I'm so sick of constantly being exhausted and crying and anxiety attacks every night over this. I already struggled with postpartum and now I'm becoming so depressed. I just need the fussiness gone and a better sleeping schedule.. I feel so alone and hopeless.
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