Cheryl S. wrote:

I just don't know what else to do and something has to
change because I feel like I have only one tiny shred of sanity left
and it's stretching thin. I know other people have had to endure
sleep deprivation as bad as this or worse, for longer, but for me
this is more than I can handle.

Call in all the troups. Do you have any family, even somewhat close. Could
Julie stay the weekend with grandma and your husband could commit the
weekend to Jaden so all you had to do was nurse him and he did the rest.
Luke and Julie are about the same age and if I needed to, I wouldn't feel
bad about him staying a weekend with his grandma. A weekend like that every
couple months might help. I'm sorry I don't have any better suggestions
:-( Jaden sounds a lot like Hunter, except Hunter was my first so it wasn't
so hard.

Does Jaden take a bottle? I've heard some people have luck with having dad
tank the baby up with a bottle of EBM at the first night waking. At least
you'd initially get a slighly longer stretch of sleep in. Pumping the
bottle might be a pain though.

Don't rule out depression either! Speak with your doctor.

Hope things get better soon!

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Nikki
Mama to Hunter (4) and Luke (2)