Screaming Baby

My little boy is almost 4m old,

This is the third night in a row where he cries like he’s in pain every morning when he wakes up. It’s a screech cry like I’ve never heard before. But then as soon as I pick him up and calm him down it’s like nothing has happened. He’s happy and smiling and content.

I initially thought maybe it’s gas but now I’m thinking it’s an attention thing to get out of the cot in the morning 🤣🤣

Is anyone else’s child like this

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Mine is the same! Is it the same time every morning? Mines usually around 6amish and I used to think he screamed for food but then would never take bottle and instantly fall asleep on me

yesss! It’s around 7 every morning but he won’t take a bottle until 8. Does your little one scream like they’re in pain or scared though? It honestly worries me that something might be wrong and I’m missing it

Exactly the same!! It is a bad cry but I wonder if they wake up after the night asleep and want comfort/want to be held. Does your LO stop crying quite quickly after you hold them or go to sleep? If so its probably the same as mine and think he just wants to go back to sleep being held. He also doesn't have a bottle till 8ish too. He screamed this morning at 7am and had 30ml as I thought it was hunger again then went back to sleep and wouldn't take any more 🙃

I'm also a worrier too but I get the sense if it was properly in pain they probably wouldn't stop crying very quickly and nothing would really settle them. That's just my impression too as I'm never sure.

Mine has started doing the same and waking earlier than usual. I’ve put it down to sleep regression and the possibility that he is also teething.

Mine is doing the exact same! Smiling as soon as I pick him up. I think it’s just them becoming more aware and trying to say “okay i want to get up now”😂

Mine has had some nightmares where she started screaming, as soon as she woke up properly she was fine!

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This is such a ramble but I don’t know where else to put it all.

I’m four months in and I don’t really have hobbies right now. I don’t do anything for myself except maybe doomscrolling or listening to a podcast while I breastfeed my baby. I used to craft and have game nights with friends. Activities that usually are at least 2 hour stretches. Now if I have an hour free my mind immediately goes to baby, or doing something in the house for baby.

And I thought I didn’t mind. Like I knew postpartum could be very mentally consuming. But I think it’s altering how I view people around me and it’s prodding at my relationship with my husband.

He spends most of his time making food for us, looking after our dogs, playing with the baby, ect. But he still has time for his hobby. Spends maybe an hour a night on it. Even adapted to using a bot for shopping for his hobby after a certain incident where we had to have a heart to heart after he left me home alone with the baby for hours during a busy workday (I work from home) to shop for his hobby.

And yet there’s like this little green eyed monster in me that rages every time I know he’s running off to start up the bot. Even though I’m the reason he does it this way.

We took a family trip last weekend to see his best friend and their kids and let them meet the baby. He brought the laptop. He’s always brought a laptop on trips and it’s never been a problem to me before. But one night we both woke up while the baby was still asleep, and he wandered out of the room. I tried to fall back asleep but couldn’t. So I went to the kitchen to try having something warm to drink to settle me. And he was there at the table running the bot from his laptop. I flipped out at him. But there really wasn’t reason to. It’s not like I needed help with the baby and he was ignoring me. He wasn’t avoiding our friends. He was just awake and unable to sleep and found something to do with his time. Yet my snap reaction was “why the hell would you do this on a family trip?”

I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s the less complete sleep from baby’s middle of the night feed? My brain being just consumed by baby? Maybe I’m not as over that shopping incident as I thought? But I’m just so annoyed at his hobby right now. The green eyed monster thinks “you could be using that time differently” but realistically to do what exactly??? Stare at our baby in the dark???

I spent probably an hour apologizing to him after I snapped. And he’s of course hurt and frustrated because I said some very mean things in the moment.

I don’t want to be this jealous, angry person. But I also don’t know how to find time for myself in this right now outside of basic hygiene. It’s like I’ve forgotten how to be myself, even if just for an hour.

Maybe I need a therapist.

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