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jgoo
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getting harder AFTER 3 months...
jgoo
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I know for a lot of people it gets easier after the first 3 months. But for me, it has gotten 10x harder!!! Am I the only one that feels this way?
#2 sleeps less, wants more attention, which then makes #1 want more attention so he's tantruming all the time. Sissy barely sleeps because if she even hears a peep out of her brother, she wants to be up & playing with him. Even with sound machines & white noise, she can still hear him. Like some insane ESP. Don't get me wrong, I love that she's so social & just wants to be a big girl, but our days are insane right now!
Is this a phase? Or my new life full of kids that yell all the time & never sleep, lol.
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Re: getting harder AFTER 3 months...
I think it got harder for us after 3 months. After DS was out of the newborn sleep all of the time phase he pretty much stopped napping unless it was on me and he was still waking every 2 hours. It took until he was almost 9 months old for him to nap on his own for more than 30 minutes. He was 10 months old before he slept through the night consistently.
It will get better!
It got harder for me after 3 months too. I would say 3-5 months was the worst. Luckily I did not have the tantrums with DD1. #2 didn't nap unless she was being held, and cried all.the.time unless she was held. And not by just held by anyone ~ held by ME. She would cry if DH held her. He hated being alone with her, and I barely had any time to myself. She got a little better at 5ish months, then she would be happy with DH as long as I was home. By six months she was so much better. Hang in there!
Mine definitely got harder. When #2 was newborn she was easy. Around 3 months is when i went back to work and #2 started being more active/social. I think #1 started to get a little jealous-not to mention this was around the time DH started working a million hours a week. It stayed hard (for me) until #2 started talking a little. Unfortunately it's only been a couple months. But-every situation is different and my personality is-hmmm, impatient to say the least.
I used to hate it when my friend with older kids would say it would get better but it does and it will.
Unlike pp, I'm very glad I read this. I've been thinking that things have gotten harder over the past month and it's nice to know I'm not alone/crazy. :-)
It's also nice to know that it might get better very soon. I've been theorizing that things would start to look up as we got closer to 5 or 6 months and it looks like that might be true!
THANK YOU for this post!! I've been pretty nervous...DC #3 arrives during DH's busy season with work, so he will be around for family dinners and that's about it (he typically does all of bath/bedtime routine!)- thankfully (for me) by the time you guys say it becomes more challenging I will have a little more help again!!
DC #1 and #2 are over 3 years apart so this 2U2 thing is REALLY new for me, thankfully I'm ready to take on the challenge (or at least that's what I say today!!)