How is this fair?
My daughter is currently cutting 3 (yup) teeth at the same time. Numbers 4,5,6. She’s been cut teeth the past 1.5 months. I’ve never ever heard of any baby getting teeth this quickly or frequently.
Last night she woke up just before 2 screaming. Like the kind that I couldn’t calm her. She just screamed while I checked her diaper and made sure everything else was okay. No big deal, she normally sleeps through the night but the past few days she’s been up at least once but after an hour she’s back to sleep.
I only got an hour of sleep before she woke up because it was hard getting her to sleep. My husband decided he’s not doing any sleep times because he says she wants me. So bedtime she screams and kicks until I can finally get her down. So there I was up with her and my husband had grabbed a bottle because he was up to pee but was now asleep in the other room (he works from home and sets his own hours). She would settle and fall asleep but as soon as I put her down she’s scream and wail so I would get her again. This happened 4 times over two hours. The whole time I was right there with her.
So at one point I put her in her crib and kept telling her she was okay. Let her try and cry it out. She didn’t too worked up. DH comes in asks what’s going on? I tell him it’s been almost 3 hours of this and I was trying everything to get her settled. That I was so tired and nothing I was doing was working. So you know what he suggested? That I take her and go in the living in the other end of the house if she was going to scream. 🤔 Um thanks? No offer to try and see if maybe she’s calm for him for a moment or not. Just told me to go further away so he could sleep. So I took her to the living room, put her in her pack n play, laid on the floor next to it and was just there with her. After about 4 hours total she finally fell asleep. I just kept giving her cold teethers, cold formula, or cold anything. Massaged her gums. Anything I could think of.
I felt sick from stress and being tired. If this had been one night I wouldn’t complain but it’s been almost a week of this and I’m the one doing it all. It’s wearing on me. I understand he works and just because it from home doesn’t mean he has free time but I’ve heard of working Dads on here still help when Mom is having a difficult time. I slept on the floor last night because I had no other options. No help. This morning he’s like “she’s not feeling good. What can you do?” Since it’s not a big deal to him than I’m feeling dumb for being stressed. I feel like a failure of a mom because I can’t bring her comfort. I know I have one baby and that’s extremely easy compared to moms who have more (according to MIL).
He offered to let me sleep for an hour because I got a couple hours last night. Maybe I’m just whining because I’m tired and should suck it up. Hopefully I’ll feel different when I wake up.
Edit to add: we’ve been giving Motrin and Tylenol (alternating). We only give it at night because my husband won’t let me do more often. He says it’s going to ruin her liver.
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