Feeling disheartened

Just wondering if anyone can relate to this. Our baby has never slept well, we'd finally got to 2-3 wakes a night and now we are back to square one, up pretty much every hour. She can take hours to get down in the first place as she will not go down awake. We are lucky to get her to bed before 10 even when she is shattered. She also won't eat meals, she will have 3-4 spoonfuls if we are lucky and that is it. Totally fed up and cannot see an end in sight 🤦🏼‍♀️The only time we get to ourselves is when we are at work and running on empty. Just feels like everyone I know has babies who will sleep and eat well, feels lonely! I know people say it does get better but when it has been a year of it already that does not seem possible 🫠

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I feel you! 😭 Same position we went from hourly waking to decent 4-5 hour stretches with a few 1-2 hours thrown in which felt amazing after a year of such bad sleep. Now we’re back sleeping worse than a newborn 😭 After wake 2-3 he won’t go back down in the cot but also won’t come back-sleep he literally just wants to be held and we are exhausted. He’s also very hit and miss with food - some days he’ll eat others not interested. I hope we get some sleep soon, it’s real tough out here 😭 everyone is shell shocked when I say my 13 month old still wakes so often and it’s mega frustrating because I feel like you don’t get the sympathy you got when you had a newborn but you’re almost more tired! x

@Yasmin it is soo hard isn't it! I get the bed dread again like when she was newborn 🤦🏼‍♀️ no matter what we do with naps etc nothing helps either! Our baby is the same, she won't even settle in with us so we are still up with her fussing and crying. I do too 🤞I feel like I can't cope much longer. Yeah same! She is worse than babies who are months younger than her, just winds me up when people say they sleep through 😂 ahh I hope it improves soon! My patience is wearing thin and I am just annoyed all the time x

The most frustrating part is there is no rhyme or rhythm to it! The nights he slept longer stretches we did nothing and I mean nothing different! I wish they could communicate and you could work out what’s up/ how to get better sleep. When I was still on mat leave I could cope because I could nap during the day but now I’m back at work with very early starts and late nights it is absolutely destroying me 😭 & I’ve got no idea who you can even turn to for help?! Sleep training doesn’t appeal to us but I almost want some reassurance there’s nothing we could be doing to help the situation that we haven’t thought of you know! x

I’m in the same boat lol literally have no tips or tricks. Went from bad to bearable, back to bad again! I think a lot of is developmental, teething etc and some babies just don’t like to sleep 😅

Yes, I feel you! We’ve never had a moment where it’s not been just awful with the sleep. Everyone said it would be better by now… the fact it’s not makes it just feel so unbearable not knowing when there’s an end in sight. I rock my girl to Taylor Swift to the point that she’s asleep for every nap and sleep🤣. FML! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Not that I wish it on anyone but I am glad we are not alone! It really is hard and seems like it will never end ☹️ I hope it improves for us all soon 🤞🏼 x

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