u/Impressive-Mood-29

My baby girl is almost 6 months (3 days away) and all of the sudden 2 weeks ago we had a random day at bedtime where she just refused to sleep, she screamed at the top of her lungs for an hour. Then again 3 days later. And twice the following week following a pattern of 2-3 days apart.
For context she was always rough with sleep during the day and I’d have to rock and hold her through the whole naps but bed time was a breeze. I’d rock for a few minutes if she needed it but I could put her down and she’d put herself to sleep.
Now my husband and I were getting exhausted working for 2 hours straight while she screamed at us and nothing seemed to work.
Skip to today, the past three days she had screamed for 2 hours straight at bedtime, at the top of her lungs, I try to rock her, teething fixes, changing diaper and then my husband tries when I can’t take it anymore. She screams the whole time and sometimes even gets worse after we go into her room to try to fix it.
Extra context, the first 2 nights that it happened she was in a bassinet in our room and has transitioned to her crib in her nursery now. She naps amazing all day, with hardly any help from me unless she over tired. She is in bed around 7:30-8 every night because her internal clock says it’s bedtime at 7 and she becomes a nightmare.
She started teething early so I know what the teething pain looks like and how to fix it, and she’s a happy baby all day so why is the suddenly crying for an hour or 2 at bedtime before she finally gets so exhausted that she sleeps.
Did anybody else’s baby do this? How long does it last? Any tips?

My baby is waking up every hour after 3:30 screaming. When my husband tries to rock her so that I can keep sleeping, it’s a battle and she continues screaming. If I try to rock her back to sleep she stops crying but absolutely will not sleep and I cannot transfer her without her waking up immediately.
I feed her to sleep whenever she wakes for the second time but she just wakes up an hour later, I can’t have her thinking I’ll feed her every time she wakes up because I cannot be waking up every hour or more just so that she can eat.
Is this normal? Does anyone have any tips? I can’t do this on 3 hours of sleep anymore.

I am a new mom and have been pumping twice a day but I exclusively breastfeed. So I have a lot of milk saved that I used for making purees and milk baths but I just have too much now. I want to donate it but all of the processes are a lot of work and I am worried that I will have to follow specific procedures and they won’t accept any of my already stored milk. How do I find somebody that will use and be happy about this milk? Even driving it to someone’s house near me. I just don’t know how to go about it and find someone. I have too much that it will absolutely be wasted if I can’t find someone to help with it.

My baby is five and a half months. She’s our first so we’re learning as we go. I’ve always been a baby person and been around kids a lot but never expected this to be so difficult. I work so hard all day (I’m a sahm) and I feel like she’s rarely happy. The nights are still so hard, I’m waking up several times to feed her and there’s no pattern so I can’t get used to or expect it to be a certain way. I’ve always rocked her to sleep in my arms and just dealt with holding her for the naps because transferring her was always impossible. The past 2 weeks I’ve been able to get her into a deep enough sleep to transfer her and it was working 75% of the time and if she woke up I could often rub her face or pat her butt until she rolled and went back to sleep. But this week, the transfers are down to maybe 25% and when she wakes up she is staring at me with wide eyes or starts screaming. Yesterday I decided to start trying to have her out herself to sleep during nap time by herself because I know she can self soothe. I’m completely against letting her just cry it out so if I hear her cry I go back in and rub her or pat her for a few minutes until she’s calm again and then I walk away. She ended up putting herself down for 3 naps and they were short but it’s progress. Today my husband and I were out so we didn’t keep up with the naps and she slept in the car for short periods. Now that we’re home she’s screaming (very normal but very overwhelming) so I tried putting her down for a nap. It takes around 30 minutes or more to actually get her to a deep sleep and shes getting heavy so this is a taxing process too. The second I tried to transfer her shes awake. It’s so frustrating but she needs to nap and I just feel like I’m failing. Is anybody else going through this or have solutions?

I also just feel so alone, when I’m stressed I want to talk to somebody but I’ve never really had friends and my husband just can’t understand what I’m going through.

My (23 F) best friend (22 F) since I was two suddenly doesn’t care about me.
We’ve been close even though we don’t get to spelled much time together. In the past 2 years I think I’ve started living the life she always wanted. Got married, bought a house, had a beautiful healthy baby. I never wanted her to feel left out or rushed or anything by this but I think that she did anyway. She left her toxic long term relationship and immediately started searching which I helped with. I told her where I met my husband and was hoping to help her find the man of her dreams. Suddenly she met this guy and was over the moon happy which also came with her starting to ignore me. Which was fine, not abnormal, I’d go a day or two between texts. Then I got pregnant and was shocked that I never heard from her, she didn’t care about how I was doing or feeling. She’s a huge baby person so I expected her to be so excited to be an auntie but I got the vibes that maybe she was more jealous and continued rushing her relationship. She got engaged and was planning her wedding immediately so that she could have a baby as well, though she had mentioned several times that it would be years before she got married and was ready to have kids.
Now the texts have gone to maybe once a week that I hear from her and when I respond (typically right away) I don’t hear again until she has something else to tell me that’s important in her life. I hardly heard from her after having my baby which again was shocking. I had family that I hardly hear from, friends from high school that I rarely talk to, and my husbands family asking about me and the baby but my best friend didn’t want anything to do with us.
Since meeting this new guy, she was texting, talking, and acting like a completely different person. She was talking like a doctor, following a religion (she was previously pretty anti-organized religion) and suddenly barely talking to me.
Then I reached out, explaining that I was sad because I used to hear from her every day and now I get a text or two a week and she doesn’t show interest in my life or my baby. She guilt tripped me for something that happened in middle school and told me that I wasn’t going to be a priority once she got married and had kids so she wouldn’t be texting me even as much as she was now. I was so hurt but ended up apologizing for the stuff from middle school and accepting what she was offering me, 2-3 texts a week, doesn’t really sound like a best friend to me but whatever.
Weeks are going past and I’m getting one random text a week (not including replies) and she still hasn’t asked about my baby or life at all. So I decided today after hardly sleeping last night because of a dream that I had about her, that I was going to cut it off. It was causing more stress and pain to me and just making me sad that I had lost my friend.
I barely even got a response, the most carefree response possible and I just can’t even believe that she didn’t care enough to say something of meaning.
I am extremely sad, my husband is so sad for me as he knew her before meeting this new guy as well and is shocked by how she started treating me.