fussiness

our 2 month old little girl seems to not be satisfied unless you are holding her.  A couple of weeks ago she began sleeping through the night.  what a relief!!!  this week she starting going to sleep and then woke up pretty close to a feeding time.  we fed her and then put her back down.  3-4 hours later she woke up again.  it's very difficult to not have your hands free.  i seem to be doing all the work around the house while my wife holds the baby.  if we put her down she wakes up.  naps seem to be from 1 minute to 15 minutes.  anybody in this situation?  what are you doing?

[RockRose]

This is exactly how all my babies were.  Welcome to parenthood!

There is a reason parents have bags under their eyes.   ;D   I'm trying to think of something postive to say,  and I can't thin of anything except this is what you can expect from a baby.  

Best wishes.

[momma-of-3g1b]

LOL! I AGREE WITH ROCK! and sleeping through the night at 2 months WHAT??? WOW that is very unheard of and you should really consider yourself lucky as heck. NONE of my kids or any i know ever slept through the night b4 a year old especially if the baby is breastfed. YOU better just get used to it and be as supportive to your wife as possible. The daily tasks will have to wait. THIS is what babies do, they love the comfort of mom and dad and NOTHING gets done. THIS too shall pass but, till then

THIS IS LIFE!!! ;)    GOOD LUCK

[jd1419]

My kids started sleeping thorugh the night at nine weeks old--:)--but yes when they were awake they were demanding and still are--there are times that they will play by themselves without my attention but other times they are totally doing the Mom, Mom. So Right now as she is so little--if there are things you need to get done during the early evening let her cry a little bit or wear a snuggly wheere you can carry her around on the front of you so she can see out..your hands will be free but she will be with you--works for vaccuuming and dusting and doing dishes--anything you don't need to bend over for---or you can maybe bring her bouncy chair in the room you are in so she can see you and not feel alone--as for waking at night she may be going through a growth spurt again and needs extra food..don't worry things will get back on a schedule--but you will never be free again to do whatever needs to be done.

[laura1977]

When my 5 year old was a baby, I found out the true meaning of being tired.  If your child is extra fussy then you might look into colic.  That is what my daughter had.  If you feed by bottle, then I recommend Dr. Browns bottles, as they are wonderful for getting the air out.  Worth the price.
Motherhood and fatherhood aren't for wimps.  Don't worry about trying to keep the house the way it was before baby, because no one does.  Sleep when the baby sleeps.  One thing I learned when my first child was a baby was I would see how late I could keep her up, thinking that she wouldn't wake up hungry in the middle of the night.  WRONG.  What happened was I lost even more sleep and she still did the same thing.  Some babies need quiet dimmed rooms to keep them calm.  Holidays are horrible on some babies.  When it came to holidays with my baby, I held her and no one else because if we passed her around, she was going to give us you know what that night.  Made family members mad on my husbands side of the family, but you know as a parent you gotta do what you gotta do.  I personally stayed home with our children and made family members come to see them.  I didn't drag them out because again my first child was very colicy and she would let me have it that night.  Some children aren't this bad and you can literally do whatever and they are happy.  I wasn't so lucky so I had to do things differently.  
Here is what my husband and I did to make our lives easier.  He works full-time and I stay at home, but when the girls were babies, we made a deal that when he got off work he would entertain the baby while I got some house work done and took a shower.  Then I would take the baby back.  Then on the weekends when he was off work, I let him sleep in on Saturday morning and on Sunday morning I slept in.  I never made him get up in the middle of the night with her, because he worked, but I did need that day of sleeping in.
Don't forget to work on your marriage.  It is easy to put a marriage on the back burners when a new baby is in the house.  Don't do this though.  
It will get easier, and everything will calm down.
Always remember that if you are feeling tired and overwhelmed, remember that your wife is probably 100 times worse because her body isn't the way she wants it to be, and her hormones are messed up.  Also remember when you wife was pregnant she got all the attention, and now she doesn't because it goes to the baby.   I just remember wanting a shower when we had a new baby.