My baby is currently 23 weeks, going through the 5th leap, I think teething, and does not want to be put down. He learned how to shriek cry and does it every time I put him down. My fiancé works a lot but helps whenever he’s home. The thing is that when I’m alone with my baby I only get a minute to go to the restroom until he screams murder. One night he cried so much because he didn’t want to go to sleep that broke down while holding him. It’s been so tough these last few days.

To top it off my mother in law judges me for not washing the dishes every day and cleaning the house. He was like, “I used to do it all the time and I had two kids.” I got filled with rage and for the first time ever I raised my voice and told her to leave the house. She got mad and said that I should do better. What she doesn’t understand is that I’m raising a child in the middle of a pandemic on my own the majority of the time. I don’t have the help that she did with her kids. I’m just so overwhelmed and don’t know what to do besides cry. Ugh!