My DD (14 months) is very sociable, and loves other children (I'm nowhere near as sociable as her - in fact very, very shy), and most other children are also wary as she bounds up and hugs and kisses them.
She likes baby groups (which I HATE), but do take her to a few, and I used to take her to the Bounce & Rhyme sessions - which I loved. I've given up the Bounce & Rhyme, as I'm very heavily pregnant & have SPD (as well as arthritis in my back, which has worsened), and although they provided a couple of chairs, they were for the use of the two grandmothers who attended (not sure why they come above a heavily pregnant mother in pain - especially as at 41 I'm closer in age to them than the other mums). Sitting on the floor was impossible, so I stopped going.
Asides from the odd group, DD does see other children, in the form of friends whose babies are the same age as her.
I've now got to the stage where it is getting impossible to go to any groups. I'm in a LOt of pain, find walking difficult, have constant braxton hicks, and as well as anaemia, I also have a heart complaint, which is making me increasingly breathless, and running after DD at these events is just impossible, and making me increasingly bad-tempered.
I have a friend who wants me to go a group. I've explained that I don't feel up to it, and that I'd rather just do home visits, but she'd rather go out. She's offered to help with DD at these events, but there is still an element of walking to get there, and I just wheezy walking upstairs (let alone feeling my insides are falling out).
I don't want to ruin DD, by my wimpishness, but at the same time I've been pushing myself, and then become shorter tempered at home, and have less energy for her at home, which upsets her.
There is a strong possibility that I'll have another caeasarean, and I know therefore that DD will miss out for a few weeks, so I don't know what to do, and feel so damned stressed
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To not go to baby/toddler groups at the moment?
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littlepiglet · 05/10/2011 10:34
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