the magial 3 month mark

[holly]

I'm always being told that the first 3 months of having a baby are a blur and things will improve, get easier etc after that. Is this true?? What changes, if any, did you notice at 12 weeks?

[jessgray]

for me it was around this time that i became confident in being a mum. and i started to notice ds's sleep patterns and was able to work around them more.

[talon]

i suppose it does somewhat - you get into more of a routine, you learn what your baby needs and their cues for those needs and they start to respond to you - smiling etc. I think you start to feel the rewards of all the hard work of the first three months. IMO. :yes:

Of course, that is not to say that it won't fluctuate as bub grows etc....

[LilShenanigans]

Agreed.

I also noticed at about 3 months that DD was slightly changing, not only smiling and giggling for the first time, but her face was becoming more 'animated' ... I think the only way to describe is she became "real" ... lol

[annsam]

Yip, things started falling into place around 10 weeks. I could see the forest through the trees.

[Belinda1000]

totally disagree i too was told this and was expecting things to get easier but when teething started it got more difficult, when she got sick for the first time hard again. i dont think it ever gets easier we just get used to how difficult motherhood is sometomes. My DD is now one and im still finding new challenges. but i must admit it does get more rewarding

[Rell]

With DD yes the 3mth make was the strat of good thing, feeding better, more settled etc. But with DS I got no reprise at 3mths, he continued to be a very difficult baby up until abut 10mths:thumbsdown:
I think as jessgray said you do become more confident at about 3mths so you trust yourself more.

[Pixie]

At around 9 weeks I felt clearer and also felt like I knew what I was doing a bit better, then it all changes lol

[Areca]

For me it started to get easier at 6 weeks...and I was told it got easier at 6 weeks. Maybe it's a mind thing? :laughing:

[Will]

I think for me it was about 8 weeks, then he started sleeping through at around 3 and a half months i think. But yeah it gets soooo much better when they can start communicating. Like smiles etc

[SassyMummy]

There was no magical 3-month-mark for me...my "magical" mark came at 3 weeks...after which DD was sleeping through the night (until 8am) and rarely wanted night feeds. She began to be happier and generally more interesting.

I guess I was blessed with an easy-going baby though...

[our little treasures]

I think it is how you deal with things, my dd I felt it was the 3 mnths mark... With ds it was 6mnths it is harder with 2 under 2 and for dd to adjust to having a brother me to adjust to 2 etc... I feel it has nothing to do with sleep as my son has only just slept through his first nights without his 1/2/3am feed and he is 12mnths

[BJelly]

I found things got better around 2 1/2 mths, by then I'd learnt a lot about bubs and also bub was not so needy of me, she'd gotten a lot quicker at breastfeeding, and she'd play with a mobile while I'd do something else - that sort of thing. We'd gotten a bit of a routine going so things were a lot more managable - I felt like I'd come out of a blur of the previous few weeks.

But I did find that after a few weeks of getting a routine, they will often have a developmental spurt and it tends to change a bit, so they still keep you on your toes - I needed to keep finding new strategies to get DD to sleep, but I found things got easier and easier as she got older (the 5 mth mark was a bit difficult - my DD got way more alert to her surroundings, and it got much harder to get her to go to sleep - but apart from that it was great).