AIBU to celebrate this "win" with you all?

[StealthPenguin]

As most of you know, I've been suffering from PND for a while now, and have been on anti-depressants for a month and a half.

Things have been getting better for a while but I haven't really had any serious "bonding" moments. I'll feel random rushes of love for DS but they are normally fleeting, and my GP has suggested upping my dosage.

But today I put DS to bed and he was fussing. DP made to get up and I told him that I'd take care of it cue shocked look and a jaw on the floor and headed up. He was rolling about so I picked him up and I don't know why but I made up a story for him about a Little Prince who refused to go to sleep, so Daddy King and Mummy Queen had to go and see a wizard who cast a spell on the Little Prince.

DS went out like a light, and I came back downstairs. DP was crying. He'd heard everything over the baby monitor.

He's just told me that this is the first time he's thought "we're going to pull through this rough patch". Cue me crying too.

I feel so fucking happy. For the first time I feel like I can beat this, and I feel like looking towards the future. I FEEL HAPPY.

Awww lovely.

cue a tear from me!

Hope more of those happy times are ahead :)

That is really lovely :)

Yep I have something in my eye too. Random moment of happiness savour it, and give that lovely DP a big hug.

So happy for you

reading this and watching OBEM = recipe for tears tonight

thats lovely :)

Stealth, blub! Well done you. I don't think I've had PND but I've found the newborn stage hard hard hard. How old is your little prince DS

That's great SP! What a lovely mummy! Really pleased for you!

He's 6 months and he's beautiful. We were in the pub earlier for lunch and he was in a highchair. Managed to get a photo of him "reading" the menu! It looks like he's going "hmmm... chicken? Or fish?".

Really lovely to hear this

Damn this grit in my eye.

Congratulations OP. Baby steps

Oh Stealth, what a positive achievement- you celebrate all you like!!!

As a fellow PND sufferer after my dd was born, the misery seems endless and relentless doesnt it. My dd was about 8 months when we started getting somewhere with the PND starting to shift- each day was a challenge, but the victories became more and more frequent. By a year I actually liked my daughter as I should have from day1.

Celebrate each small victory- things will not change overnight- but each small achievement is a massive massive leap in the right direction

Hope there are many more "wins" coming to you in the next few days, weeks and months
xx

Stealth, well done again, sounds like a great day. And yes, they look über cute in high chairs, don't they (my DD is 7 months).

lovely, lovely, lovely....xxxx

Awwww, that's so lovely.

Brilliant news! Very pleased for you. Onwards and upwards

Lovely story...hope for lots more lovely moments to come for you. Spring is just around the corner and it's definitely the time of year to start looking up at the sky and smiling for no reason... :)

My mascara isn't as waterproof as I thought!

I'm so pleased for you and your son is very lucky.
My DD (3) asks for new stories and gets "Once apon a time there was a little girl who had a mummy who was not very good a telling stories and the little girl quickly learnt to ask her daddy to put her to bed, the end"

Well done OP You have the magic touch!

Brilliant - really happy for you all. And your gift for creating stories like that is fab too!

This is absolutely not what I was expecting when I clicked on this thread. How lovely, I'm so pleased for you.

High Five and well done you!

(If only I could spell - )

Ah feck it, a shameless blubber here - bloody lovely, Im really happy for you all :)