Please tell me I'm not alone

VPGIRL06

...but, does anyone else feel like carin for LO is getting harder? Like, instead of being able to adjust or fussiness decreasing, everything is just getting harder to do?

2 weeks, LO slept anywhere and everywhere, ate like clock work, slept at least 4 hours a time at night

4 weeks LO quit taking naps without assistance, but slept well at night and ate well. Takes naps in carrier right away, and will sleep swaddled

6 weeks LO still having issues with naps, sleeps well at night. Has problems taking a bottle, will scream and choke, takes 1 hour to eat. Will sleep in carrier, will sleep into a second nap cycle if helped while swaddled

Now at 8w2d, LO is worse than ever. Still needs help napping eating is crap. She's on Zantac but still chokes alot with eating. Will have 3 oz bottles, choke and cough and refuse the rest. Acts starving about 30 minutes later so I feed her to sleep. Won't burp no matter what. Has decided to stop taking long naps in the carrier. Has stopped going down for the second cycle no matter how long I hold her. Is fussier now than ever.

I'm at my wits end. I don't know when it's supposed to "get easier" and there seems to something new and hard every week. Please tell me there's some light at the end of the tunnel at this point I'm afraid that she'll stop sleeping through the night the one thing we have going for us before anything else gets better. It seems every week is harder than the week before and nothing works for longer than a week

doremi29

I hate to say this but I found months 3-6 the toughest with DS.  He was just fussy, stopped sleeping well at night, was very particular about what you had to do to get him to sleep, and it was almost like he wanted to be able to do more than he physically was ready to do (like he was constantly frustrated).  I also found it to get progressively harder in the early weeks- that's why I'm always hesitent to say how easy DD is because I'm just waiting for her to get more difficult.

mnj05

I was thinking about this today. DS used to be SO easy, sleep well around the clock, eating was fine, awake time wasn't fussy at all but everything seems to have changed and I didn't see it coming.

He still sleeps well at night, but naps during the day are getting shorter and he isn't sleeping just anywhere either. Lately it's been he has to be near me, either on me or right beside me. When he eats, he starts out fine for an ounce or two, then fusses the rest of the time. Most of his awake time is spent fussing, not all out screaming but fussing enough I can't get anything done.

It also doesn't help that DH doesn't understand and when he comes home, he's outside doing whatever or at the neighbor's house. I'm so frustrated and can't stop crying tonight. I'm hoping these rough patches fly by.

laurenhankey

It doesn't get "easier" it just gets "different" and you adjust.  For us, the turning point, literally overnight, was 12 weeks.  She began fully STTN and the fussiness stopped.  LO's are growing SO MUCH in the beginning that it's like sensory overload for them.  Have you checked out Wonder Weeks? That really explained a lot to me what was going on with my baby. 

VPGIRL06

laurenhankey:

It doesn't get "easier" it just gets "different" and you adjust.nbsp; For us, the turning point, literally overnight, was 12 weeks.nbsp; She began fully STTN and the fussiness stopped.nbsp; LO's are growing SO MUCH in the beginning that it's like sensory overload for them.nbsp; Have you checked out Wonder Weeks? That really explained a lot to me what was going on with my baby.nbsp;

I understand it's not particularly easier but I think my frustration has stemmed from the fact is that my LO gets increasingly fussier since 6 weeks, and new challenges seem to pop up with no relief from previous challenges.

I'm hoping that right now she's just in that 8th wonder week OR she hit her 6 week growth spurt a little late...