Please tell me I'm not alone ðŸ˜
The last ten days have been ROUGH! My 5mo daughter has been teething, so her sleep has been really disrupted all of last week. And then this weekend just gone was Father's Day here in Australia, so we were really busy. From Friday through to today her sleep and feeds have been all messed up and erratic and I know all the problems I'm having right now are because of that but I just feel at my wits end!!!
Before she started teething we'd JUST gotten her into the swing of napping in her cot instead of my arms. I was JUST starting to get some time and freedom back for myself, and then I made the mistake of letting her nap in my arms again on a few days where she was in pain with the teething, and then over the weekend of course her routine completely went out the window and the only person she was comfortable with was me, and now I've spent the last two hours trying to get her to nap in her cot, using every method that has ever worked for her, and she has refused to sleep and just screamed and screamed and screamed at me. But fell straight to sleep the moment I gave in and let her sleep in my arms because at this point it's just important that she sleeps, right???
She's been asleep in my arms for half an hour and I just keep crying. I'm sooo exhausted. I wake at least half a dozen times a night, the other night it was literally a dozen times, and the naps have been my only time for myself and now I don't even have that. I dunno, it feels silly now I'm typing it all out, but when people I know ask how motherhood is going I can't exactly tell them that I feel suffocated and exhausted and that it's not all it's cracked up to be. I love my daughter, and it's just been a shitty week or so I guess because most of the time we ARE happy and we have great days, but I don't feel like it's ever okay to talk about the shit days too 😔
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