In the trenches
First time mom here and I just am looking for reassurance or advice or any tips tricks anything that might help.
My little guy is three weeks old and I just feel like I’m in the deepest of trenches right now. I know (and hope) it gets better. Just right now I feel like I’m failing.
I’ve read online that sometimes between 2 to 4 weeks babies will go through a growth spurt and I’m hoping that this is just what this is. I just feel like if we’re awake we’re screaming crying and nothing I do seems to fix it for longer than five minutes. Nursing ? Unlatching and crying or we nursed for 20 minutes and are crying five minutes later. Dirty diaper ? Screaming bloody murder the whole change and for 5-10 minutes after the clean diaper is on. Burping and keeping him upright to help with gas for 10 minutes or so afterwards. He only wants to sleep on me (which I do love the baby cuddles. Just can’t get anything done otherwise).
Idk. I just hate the screaming crying. He sounds so horse and raspy and I just feel like I’m letting him down. I know the world is new to him and he’s new to it. This is new for all of us. So I try to remember that but I just can’t help but get upset over the screaming crying fits and just looking for something that might be helpful.
He’s not a huge binky/pacifier guy at all. We try. Sometimes it helps and other times I think we’re tooo far gone in our fit to be consoled by that