Imagine some little creature that is totally dependant on you and it is emitting a scream that goes straight through your eardrums and pierces your brain. You can feel it in your gut. Your blood pressure and cortisol levels are rising. You have no sleep. Your hormones are all out of whack from pregnancy and post birth. You are physically drained from the pregnancy, the birth, and the day to day care. You have to feed this creature every three or so hours so your sleep is interrupted and up to one of those three hours may be spent feeding that creature. If breastfeeding, that's an extra physical strain on the body, possibly accompanied by pain and blood (not always but it does happen). Sometimes it cries for no apparent reason...you can't work out what's wrong - it's fed, burped, changed, good temperature. Nothing you do to calm it works. You feel like a failure for not being able to do anything.
And that's every day.
It's not always so amplified. Or constant. But it does happen. And parents are only human.
IIN that I want to chunk my child through a window?
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Imagine some little creature that is totally dependant on you and it is emitting a scream that goes straight through your eardrums and pierces your brain. You can feel it in your gut. Your blood pressure and cortisol levels are rising. You have no sleep. Your hormones are all out of whack from pregnancy and post birth. You are physically drained from the pregnancy, the birth, and the day to day care. You have to feed this creature every three or so hours so your sleep is interrupted and up to one of those three hours may be spent feeding that creature. If breastfeeding, that's an extra physical strain on the body, possibly accompanied by pain and blood (not always but it does happen). Sometimes it cries for no apparent reason...you can't work out what's wrong - it's fed, burped, changed, good temperature. Nothing you do to calm it works. You feel like a failure for not being able to do anything.
And that's every day.
It's not always so amplified. Or constant. But it does happen. And parents are only human.