How is everyone?

I'm good thanks yes been tough and as I had a baby at 24 weeks 2 days and not at his due date he's a fighter

Im finding the crying difficult when I feel like I've tried everything to try and sooth him

@Jamie oh bless him! Yes an absolute fighter, how is he doing?

@Rachel thank you yes he is. He's okay and just did eye surgery

I’m doing it all alone at the moment it’s so hard being a ftm is scary x I’m so sleep deprived it’s crazy x

@Kiera Especially in the early hours on no sleep. Feel like you are going round and round!

@Lu you are doing amazing I am sure even though it is so hard on your own! hope you manage to get some sleep. your baby loves you and thinks you are the best mummy ever! I keep telling myself the lack of sleep doesn’t last forever and I know more about being a parent than I did even yesterday and that’s all you can do x

I’m really struggling. My baby won’t settle at night and just getting no sleep at all.

I am finding things so overwhelming , such a huge life change and I hope these feelings if self doubt are just hormones, no-one prepares you for the highs of the most love you have ever felt but the lows of worry and panic and sleep deprivation all mixed into one x

The love is unreal but I’m struggling with the sleepless nights. The hormones and anxiety are also in overdrive. You’d think it would get easier being my third baby but it seems harder. We’ve got this though, mamas xx

@Rachel thank you so much means a lot 🥹 hope you’re doing well x

@Rachel me too it’s exhausting I’m running on about 5 hours sleep total over a week never felt so fucked up

I've got my other half home for leave and my mother has come for the first week to aid. My baby is generally easy throughout the day and only requires 2-3 feeds. She sleeps for long hours and allows me to rest all day, then at night, she cluster feeds every few hours. But Im quickly learning that there are ways to wake her up during the day and help to bring the cluster feeding forward in the day. Im 3 days pp.

I have a 3 week old and it’s been HARD! She spent the first week in the NICU/hospital before being allowed home so that was super stressful. My husband and I are trying to find ways to cope with the exhaustion of keeping this little person happy and satisfied around the clock. We’ve never argued in the 5 years we’ve been together but I’ve had to bite my tongue a little lately simply because anything I’d say would be said out of frustration/exhaustion than actually being conducive to conversation. It’s now 12:50am and my husband goes back to work today after 3 weeks off. I had to pregame night shift with a nap from 8:30-11pm, he’s gonna wake at 6 to take over and let me sleep until 8:45 as he starts work at 9. Thank god he is WFH! I’m hoping the transition is ok, I’m still recovering from C-section and in a lot of pain but somehow have to take over the aspects of family life that he’s been covering since she was born 😭