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THIS MAMA IS TIRED. Like the kind of exhaustion where I need like 3 weeks of sleep to feel better. We were doing well with sleep until about the beginning of April when my daughter turned 7 months old. She started waking up 5-6 times a night, every thirty minutes. This is still going on. She is teething and has developed severe separation anxiety and is basically wanting to be held by me allllll the time. I love my child but I am exhausted and need a break sometimes. I’ll give her to dad and she’ll just scream and takes a while to settle down but once settled down she’s fine however sometimes she doesn’t settle and cries really bad. It’s so frustrating for me sometimes. But the sleep!!! Someone tell me it gets better. She’s not hungry and doesn’t want milk when waking up. She most wants me to rock her and hold her. Being worn up every 1.5hr every single night is really really making me feel miserable. I’d like to start doing some workout at home but I literally have no energy in me due to this lack of sleep and carrying my chunky baby around alllll day makes my body ache so bad. JUST PLS TELL ME IT GETS BETTER. I go back to work in July and I’m dreading being even more exhausted and on top of that have to study for exams. 😓😓😓😓

FTM. My daughter will be 11 months old when I go back to work in July and I’m sooooo anxious about going back to work leaving her at home and also leaving her with a nanny. My husband will initially WFH the days I go to work and my mum has kindly offered to help as well however my daughter is going through a bad separation anxiety phase so she’s basically glued to mama all the time. Now I’m so worried about how my husband, my mum or the nanny will manage her when I’m not there? Who will tell them what she wants when’s she’s upset and what they should do? I know it’s going to be hard but I feel so sick thinking about it sometimes. I’ll be working 2.5 days a week with only one long day 8-5 but omg the thought of being away for her for that long makes me so sad. How did you all manage? How hard was it? I know my daughter will have to learn and adapt but thinking about her missing me and struggling to fall asleep or something breaks my heart so bad!!!!! Please give this mama advice and tips on how I console myself that my baby is ok without me and she’ll learn and how do I teach myself to be ok without her!!!!