Sleep deprivation is real
Our daughter is 6 weeks old and we're on night 3 of basically zero sleep because she won't settle. We've tried everything. Swaddling, feeding, burping, white noise, the works. She
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Our daughter is 6 weeks old and we're on night 3 of basically zero sleep because she won't settle. We've tried everything. Swaddling, feeding, burping, white noise, the works. She
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