Unwell

Anybody else dealt with being unwell and having to care for their little one? Feel a bit like death and my husband is at work all day and I'm currently feeling very sorry for myself 😅 My baby was ill last week and wasn't as bad as I am so not sure If I caught it from him or have something else but all I want to do is go back to bed 😞 no real purpose to this post other than to wallow in self pity

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I had fever with all 4 kids at home, i was dying on the sofa 🫣 my Hubby came home in evening only 😁 glad it was only 2 days tho 🤣

I had sickness and diarrhoea last month while my partner was away for work. It was horrific 😱
I just had her on my bed with toys to play with and as she’s ebf just fed her when needed, brought her nappy caddy in and changed her on the bed. When she was due a nap she went in her bed.
We also watched alot of dancing fruits 😂🙈

@Santa it started Sunday and my husband was home and I thought that was the worst of it but it got a bit better and now worse again. My poor kid had to put up with me lying on his play mat yesterday while he played next to me 😅

@Zoe Bluey was useful yesterday when I just needed 5 minutes to have a hot drink and relax but I'm an exclusive pumper so every 3 hours I pump and that's a chore in itself. How anybody gets through illness with a baby about it beyond me 😂

It's fine i watches movies with kiddos to survive 🤣

Omg I had the same as Zoe 🥲 for 48 hours while husband was on a work trip and my parents were on holiday! It's awful and she was still a screaming little one then I had just keep dropping her wherever to run to the bathroom 🤣 fortunately she was still a big napper then so we contact napped our way through... Good luck!

I'm ill right now 😭 baby is too and won't sleep or settle. He also screams every time I blow my nose. Hope you feel better soon !

@Isabelle it's the worst, and all my family are an hour away and working so can't help out. Right now my boy just wants to play so i am trying to keep him happy, luckily he's fairly content overall x

@Maria you poor thing, luckily my baby isn't unwell this week and when he was last week it was so minor, he's just got a snotty nose. Hope you're holding up okay and feel better soon and baby too xx

Me and my baby are currently unwell, she’s been wide awake 2-4.30 this morning and I really could have done without that😴 she’s very needy which is understandable but I just want to sit and watch tv😂

@Shannon yeah I totally get that, I just want my bed and a book and not to feel like a terrible mum for not being as hyped up and fun as usual x

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Hour night wakes and 5am get up

Can anyone shed some light as to why on earth my child doesn’t want to sleep??? My eyeballs are bleeding!!

Never been a good sleeper, but the problems always changing. He’s nearly 9 months old.

Beginning of the month he dropped to 2 naps. We could put him to bed at 7pm and he’d get up for the day at 6am, with multiple wake ups every 2/3 hours.

Now we put him down at 7pm, he can do a good 4/5 hour stretch, but come 1/2am he’s up every hour then getting up for the day at 5am. This then completely messes up the day because I can’t keep him awake long enough to even get to 7pm, let alone later.

He has 2 naps, roughly about 1hr10 each but it changed based on when he wakes and trying to get him to a reasonable bed time.

What could be the reason for this? 6am is fine, but 5am is not 😩😩

Over supply of milk

I am nearly 5weeks postpartum and I have such a big over supply of BM.
Has anyone donated / sold their supply, if so where do you recommend for this?

I think its fair

Me and my partner agreed to sleep in 1 day of the weekend.
He doesn't find it fair to look after both kids (my 4 year old isnt his) while i sleep so he looks after the baby while i sleep and my toddlers at his dads and ill look after both the next day.
Straightaway it was pretty unfair as i let him sleep in until he wakes up 10-12
He wakes me up when baby starts fussing because he wants milk (doesnt need it)
I cant pump as i dont supply enough.
So i get woken at 9/9:30 to feed baby then i get him sleep then theres no point sleeping in as my toddlers being dropped off.
I also find it unfair that i get both kids to sleep most night, i get my toddler to sleep everyday hes home (4/5days) and i get my baby to sleep most nights with the exception of maybe twice a month as his dad struggless then about 95% of his thru the day naps.
I have also been unwell for a few months (tumor scare) and am waiting 18 weeks to see a specialist so im obviously petrified for that, so unbelievably tired and alot of aches and pains, specifically these pounding headaches ive been having.
After i had been up til 11:30 getting both kids to sleep lastnight and my partner falling asleep at 10 then him ignoring the baby cries all morning until my toddler woke up im fed up slammed to door and rold him not to expect to sleep in unless he gets the baby to sleep the night b4.
I keep having issues with him not feeling the wet from baby being sick or weeing himself or being able to smell it do about 98% of the time hes given to me i have to clean him up n change him.
Including at night, we agreed my partner would change nappies (1 a night at 5am) while i feed (2,4,5,6:30) but every night when i get him hes pissed through and my partner gets annoyed when i wake him up n moan about it.
Then the morning after hes annoyed at how much washing there is (thats his job) and moans about how often i change myself (baby constantly shits thru and sicks on me) and baby
Honestly im just so tired all the time

Help meeee

!!All advice welcome!! My 5 month old (nearly 6mo) is just not sleeping . Not for naps and not at night . She can’t connect her cycles . We started sleep regression at 3 months but in like how is this nearly been going on for a further 3 months . Like surely not . She has 10 min naps in crib ( which take so much effort ) and maybe 20/30 min naps in my arms/pushchair . She wakes minimum every hour at night with guaranteed false start 20 mins in . I combo feed. I breastfeed her until almost asleep then place her in the next to me crib give her the pacifier and put my hand on her cheek/face for 20 seconds and she drifts off . It’s not really getting her to sleep that’s the issue it’s she just won’t stay asleep . She doesn’t even need to feed much at night usually 1-2 breastfeeds . The rest is comfort wakes needing her pacifier or my hand on her cheek . I’ve looked into sleep associations and independent sleep and I broke the feed to sleep association and rocking and do bedside comforting instead for most wakes which has now lead to my hand being a sleep association on her face . I’m just so exhausted my husband is working mon-fri 9-9 and it’s just me . I haven’t had more than 4 hours in a row since her birth . I can’t get anything done during the day . She is so clingy and cries if I leave room /put her down etc. I love her so much but we both need rest . If anyone has any tips or a routine that could help PLEASE tell me I’ll try anything 🥲❤️❤️

AITA

In the uk there is an outbreak of meningitis, in a specific area mainly. My BD has family from that area and decided to go and meet up with them, I said if he does then he cannot have contact with the kids for 7-10 days after incase he picks anything up. Am I being over dramatic? I reallyyy don’t want my young kids getting anything serious

Crawling and walking

So my girl is 9 months now and shes great at sitting up and stays on her tummy for awhile but she seems to have no interest in trying to move or crawl or bum shuffle. Shes a big baby always has been but I'm disabled and I feel like it's my fault she's not hitting milestones I feel like there's something I'm not doing and it's making me a bad mum