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I hate weekends at the moment bc in the week I’ve got classes and I can meet up with my other mum friends but at weekends everyone else wants to be w their partners and the single ones generally don’t wanna hang out with me and my baby and I just get really isolated :(
The last 2 nights of sleep have just been strings of naps he hasn’t done more than a 2 hour stretch in days im so tired 😭
Life at the moment:
Max is 8 months old today!!! He’s 2/3 of a year old wtf how is that possible when he turns 1 I’m gonna lose my mind
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I 💜 divorce. @ women divorce that thang
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I’ve been reading through the notes and I just have to say that I absolutely promise, promise, promise you that nobody in the dental surgery is there to judge you, and we’re certainly not mad at you. Cavities happen. Even to dentists. You think your dentist has a mouth full of virgin teeth? Unlikely! They’ve all visited eachother’s surgeries to get a quickie filling (ooh, saucy) between patients. They understand that life can get in the way of oral hygiene sometimes. They understand that life’s too short not to eat chocolate. They understand that you’ve got to live. I swear to you that everyone in that room is just there to help you. Please, please, please don’t stop going to the dentist because you’re worried they’ll be mad at you. It’s really not the case. They understand. It’s fine. It’s really, really fine. Please go to the dentist. I promise you it’s ok.
You would not believe how comforting this is.
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I’m really bad at seeing resemblance in babies but when max is really smiley and giggly it’s like… there I am! That’s my little boy!!!
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[ID: Six screencaps from Taskmaster. Rosie Jones says, "So excited to be on a team with Jackie. I just feel like we've got so much in common." Sitting beside her, Jack Dee tries to suppress a smile. Greg Davies asks, "Do you?" Rosie says, "We're both from a place of positivity. And we were a team made in heaven." She makes a beatific pinching gesture towards the ceiling. She puts her arm around Jack's shoulders and they both grin delightedly. End ID.]
This week max had a tummy bug and threw up tonnes and it was so awful but I survived it and took care of him and cleaned up all the puke all by myself
It’s meant that sleep seems to have gone back almost to square one lol, naps are shit and nights are shit and I’m so tired
Can he be like 5 now please so he can sleep and walk and talk and engage with stuff more than picking up a toy and chewing it and dropping it again
I know in a few months he will at least be crawling and starting to walk and the sleep stuff won’t last forever but idk maternity leave feels like treading water and trying to fill up time and I actually can’t wait to be back at work and have 3 days when I actually get to miss max a bit and enjoy time with him more
We had a whole day of great sleep and then today was shit arghhhhh
Today was our third day on the new sleep plan and I’m honestly amazed. Nothing had been 100% perfect, but he’s stopped needing to feed to fall asleep, he’s been able to fall asleep in his cot and it’s getting much quicker, today he slept alone in the day for an HOUR, and I haven’t left him alone to cry once. I’ve made 2 of the nice recipes in my baby food book! The kitchen is mostly clean! I’m watching kingsman with a glass of wine!
Still to improve: sleeping through the night, especially 4-7am, 3 hours of independent napping per day, hopefully eventually he’ll stop crying when he is first put down and that’s basically it.
This probably seems like the most basic stuff but my god after spending almost 7 months pretty much exclusively feeding him to sleep and having him sleep on me it’s completely revolutionary and it does involve a lot of crying but if he keeps going like this it’s worth it.
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I’ve started working with a sleep consultant. She’s doesn’t do cry it out which I like, but I have to completely reset Max’s sleep habits - stop feeding to sleep, sleeping on me, reduced number of naps per day, etc. they’re all things I want to do and should help him sleep through the night but it’s really hard. I’ve managed to get him to fall asleep in his cot ie not feeding him to sleep twice today, and it took lots of crying screaming rocking shushing singing, and he didn’t stay asleep as long as I’d have liked, but it’s still huge progress and I’m really pleased! Getting two half-hour slots to myself in the day is something I haven’t had in MONTHS, and hopefully they’ll get longer and I’ll be able to get more done 👍🏼
Overall I’m still tired but it feels like I might be able to dig my way out eventually.
Oh god first bedtime on new schedule was HORRIBLE and I know it’s just cause it’s different to what he’s used to but fuck me that was so much crying 😭😭😭
I’ve started working with a sleep consultant. She’s doesn’t do cry it out which I like, but I have to completely reset Max’s sleep habits - stop feeding to sleep, sleeping on me, reduced number of naps per day, etc. they’re all things I want to do and should help him sleep through the night but it’s really hard. I’ve managed to get him to fall asleep in his cot ie not feeding him to sleep twice today, and it took lots of crying screaming rocking shushing singing, and he didn’t stay asleep as long as I’d have liked, but it’s still huge progress and I’m really pleased! Getting two half-hour slots to myself in the day is something I haven’t had in MONTHS, and hopefully they’ll get longer and I’ll be able to get more done 👍🏼
Overall I’m still tired but it feels like I might be able to dig my way out eventually.
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Um things aren’t good
Max is so great but his sleep is terrible and it’s breaking me
Yesterday I had to leave him in his cot so I could go and cry in my room because I’m so exhausted and frustrated
I’ve been caught in this ‘should’ thing, thinking I’m supposed to just ride it out and wait for it to get better but I still need to think about what I actually WANT - I want to sleep through the night, I want to stop feeding him to sleep, I want him to stop waking up at 4, I want him to be able to be put down to nap on his own without feeding him to sleep for an hour first
I think I spend about a third of my life in the chair in the nursery feeding him and holding him for naps and it’s just not sustainable for my mental health or my back
I’ve got a phone call with a sleep consultant tomorrow and I’m gonna probably get her to come here and coach me through a better way of putting him down that doesn’t just utterly drain me because at the moment I want to go back to work so I can chuck him in nursery and have a break, and that’s not how I want to feel for this last chunk of maternity leave
He starts nursery in December and hopefully by then we will be in a better place sleep wise and I will cry less and be less miserable and exhausted and just be able to enjoy Max for the fun, happy little kid he is
He laughs all the time btw at swimming this week he just giggled the entire time I really do love him I’m just so overwhelmed 24/7 and I barely get half an hour to myself after he’s asleep but I have to go to sleep pretty quickly cause he could wake up any moment
Um things aren’t good
Max is so great but his sleep is terrible and it’s breaking me
Yesterday I had to leave him in his cot so I could go and cry in my room because I’m so exhausted and frustrated
I’ve been caught in this ‘should’ thing, thinking I’m supposed to just ride it out and wait for it to get better but I still need to think about what I actually WANT - I want to sleep through the night, I want to stop feeding him to sleep, I want him to stop waking up at 4, I want him to be able to be put down to nap on his own without feeding him to sleep for an hour first
I think I spend about a third of my life in the chair in the nursery feeding him and holding him for naps and it’s just not sustainable for my mental health or my back
I’ve got a phone call with a sleep consultant tomorrow and I’m gonna probably get her to come here and coach me through a better way of putting him down that doesn’t just utterly drain me because at the moment I want to go back to work so I can chuck him in nursery and have a break, and that’s not how I want to feel for this last chunk of maternity leave
He starts nursery in December and hopefully by then we will be in a better place sleep wise and I will cry less and be less miserable and exhausted and just be able to enjoy Max for the fun, happy little kid he is