u/Carriespromnight

Ftm and baby is just a week over 4 months. Everything feels like it's flipped 180. She has begun crying (more of a continuous scream cry) if I try to put her anywhere other than my arms. Her cries are honestly non stop even though I know she is fed, changed, slept and cuddled and played with.

She really hates being laid flat now so bassinet attachment on pram = cry city.

She fights naps all day and they're all contact naps again suddenly as it's what will work. I feel like so discouraged and like I have heightened flight mode. I was just getting confident going out with her and seeing people out during month 3. Planned to attend our first classes to meet other babies and mums and this just switched suddenly one day last week that now I haven't felt like I can go to a class. I don't feel like I can leave the house.

I am finding it so hard to do bare essentials for myself all over again. This truly is the hardest it's felt so far.

She's EBF. She hates carrier (but I want to work on that to at least be able to get things done). And I do not want to stop going out with her but I can only describe the feeling as incapacitating.

(i have help for perinatal MH already).

Hello. (Have posted in this sub a few times as it is honestly great so thanks if you respond!)

Ftm baby turned 4 months just a few days back. Since she was 3 months old we've occupied wake windows in different ways.

Tummy time with mirror/toy/watermat, reading a book, playing with sensory toys, walking outside, independent play with playgym, watching me narrate as I do things. Singing/dancing. Etc.

However, my baby's attention span to liking these activities is short. We don't do them all at once in one wake window as I do find she can act over stimulated. But her wake windows are pretty long like 2-3 hrs each time. So it's sometimes like they're kinda long and she's not liking any of the things. Like she's happy to do it for even sometimes just 2 minutes.

Idk if I'm sort of stimulating her too much or too little?

Or other's experience with this? Is it weird if your baby seems to want to chill more? I feel so guilty when she's just happy in her rocker herself.

Also I'm using the phrase "attention span" just simply as I know a 4m old baby isn't going to have insanely amazing attention. I just don't know how else to describe it!

Hi. Idk if I just want to vent. My anxiety and panicked feeling feels through the roof right now.

I'm a first time mum, diagnosed with "tietze syndrome" since I was 15. Always worsens with lifting too much, twisting too much, and after flus that affect my chest.

In teens and adulthood it has ebbed and flowed. I'm 29 now.

I have a 4 month old baby. I had a bout of it when she was 3 weeks old which was dreadful. It lasted about 2 weeks of constantly not really being able to hold her as much as I wanted in fear of exacerbating my chest during healing.

She is turning 4 months and it's back today. I felt those horrible warning 'twangs' this week but it seemed

Ok till last night.

Sudden shooting startling pain, feeling panicked because it hurts more with deep breaths. Not being able to lay to sleep etc etc.

I just feel so rubbish to live with this with a baby. I have to hold and look after her?! I feel monumentally f'ed.

(Side note: I've always been given naproxen, codeine phosphate and ibuprofen gel). I'm dosed up but just feeling so horrible to deal with it postpartum. So tired of having this condition. I've gotten it to a good place. Flare ups are not continuous. But when they happen. I feel so sad. Angry.

Anyways currently trying to find a upright position to "sleep" in bed whilst also caring for her post vaccinations as she's extra upset. And i'm just done.