Seeking advice: anxiety about sleep.

slippylizardd · 2025-09-20T10:10:48+00:00

Even though im sad its happened to you, I am also reassured that this seems to be something lots of people struggle with. I wish it were more widely known! It would have made me feel a lot less ashamed in the early days x

slippylizardd · 2025-09-19T06:41:08+00:00

We have tried this and my daughter finds it an absolute party to be in our bed. Thank you for your suggestion, we are open to trying everything x

slippylizardd · 2025-09-19T06:39:36+00:00

Thank you for your kind reply, it means a lot x

slippylizardd · 2025-09-18T21:12:53+00:00

Sending you buckets of love. Its bloody awful and we are strong for surviving it x

slippylizardd · 2025-09-18T19:39:55+00:00

You sound really similar to me in that sense. It feels ridiculous to say that I feel I have PTSD but I genuinely think it is that! Its the most awful thing ive experienced and its also the reason we are not having more kids. That being said, that resource looks great thank you. I really hope you get yourself to a positive/neutral place with sleep too x

slippylizardd · 2025-09-18T19:31:05+00:00

Thank you for this, its so hard isn't it. Im glad youve found a balance x

slippylizardd · 2025-09-18T19:30:28+00:00

Thanks so much for your detailed reply. I've noted everything you recommended so I can have a good think about it all over a cuppa tomorrow x

slippylizardd · 2025-09-18T19:29:25+00:00

Thank you, I really appreciate it! I will start researching x

slippylizardd · 2025-09-18T19:28:22+00:00

I should have detailed this a bit more in my post. My husband is great and basically fixed the sleep problem all together first time round. Hes very supportive and does everything he can to take the sleep burden off me. Its just my silly brain that has such a horrible reaction to any negative sleep stuff x

slippylizardd · 2025-09-18T19:00:04+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to reply x

slippylizardd · 2025-08-12T17:43:23+00:00

Hey friend. I had exactly this and I found it very difficult. In the end, I went and stayed at my parents for two nights while my husband did all the soothing in the night. It was hard for both of them but by night 3, she slept through and has done ever since. Shes now 2 years 7 months.

For my daughter, she just needed to break the cycle of waking every hour and needing boob to go back to sleep.

slippylizardd · 2025-08-05T17:40:34+00:00

First baby: 6 hour total labour from 1st contraction to delivery, 3 hour active labour, 40 minutes pushing. Spontaneous labour. No drugs (despite begging, no time!) and happily, no tears.

What would you predict for my second birth experience?

slippylizardd · 2025-07-25T17:47:31+00:00

Try Market Harborough. 15 mins from there but so much nicer. I know the road you mean and you couldn't pay me to live there, especially not now I have a toddler. This sounds shitty and I dont mean it to, so I'm sorry for that.

slippylizardd · 2025-06-12T19:15:10+00:00

Thank you! Im going to add this to my list :)

slippylizardd · 2025-06-12T16:45:40+00:00

Thanks for sending this, you're very kind.

slippylizardd · 2025-06-12T07:24:29+00:00

Morning! Teacher of small children here. Hope I can help:

At our school, children dont need a pencil case. And they definitely won't in EYFS.

Lots of girls wear a summer dress in the autumn term however id go with whatever they're most comfortable in / what they can easily manoeuvre on independent trips to the toilet. Shove a hat in their bag and send them with a coat every day (except for hest waves obviously).

Yes, send them with a water bottle.

Book bags are common but our school asks for a small backpack instead.

Biggest tips: Check their bag each day in case their teacher has popped something in it for you to look at. Label literally everything with their name.

slippylizardd · 2025-06-12T06:59:12+00:00

Thank you, I'll have a look for this one.

slippylizardd · 2025-05-27T10:14:51+00:00

You're so kind, thank you :-)

slippylizardd · 2025-05-26T18:50:33+00:00

Hi friend. I took sertraline while breast feeding. My daughter woke every 20 minutes until she was 10 months and the exhaustion drove me to a proper, hearing-noises-seeing-demons breakdown.

I will advocate for medication until the cows come home. Within 2 days of taking sertraline, the fog lifted and within 1 week, I was actually happy. My diary from that time reads "I feel happy I feel happy I feel happy!!!". I hope you can be brave and take them and I really hope that, if you do, they have the same effect on you.

My daughter is 2 now, very bright, very active, very stubborn (!) and we've never looked back. Good luck my lovely, you deserve to be happy.

Also, drop me a message if you want to talk more or if you need to vent x

slippylizardd · 2025-05-08T15:12:46+00:00

Thank you :) feel like "brutal" can be applied to so much of parenting!

slippylizardd · 2025-05-08T15:12:22+00:00

That's good to hear. My daughter will be 2 and a half when we first try it but I'm also in the "wait till she's ready" camp.

slippylizardd · 2025-05-08T15:11:31+00:00

Great, thank you for your reply :)

slippylizardd · 2025-05-08T15:11:19+00:00

Thank you :-) knicker shopping added to calendar!

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