Wow ladies! It has taken me well over an hour to catch up and read everyones posts from today!
Congrats to vita on your little William! Its lovely to give baby a name isn't it!
I've had an ok day, but there is an air of unease in school. New class lists for children and staffing have been issued for next year in the last couple days and there are a lot of unhappy people, there is a major change across the whole school, and when you consider there are around 80 staff it seems unnecessary to cause such a large amount of upset.
I'm not particularly happy about my class change - all my support staff will be different in September. Now considering there will be a new teacher (for 2 days a week, my job share is taking on one of my days so they only need a new teacher for Thurs/Fri), and taking into account I work with the most medically vunerable children in the school, to have a completely new team to the class as well as a teacher in my opinion is putting my children at risk. Recognising and dealing with their seizures (some of which can be subtle, seizures dont always mean lots of jerking around, it can be as subtle as staring into space), children who need suctioning regulaly to keep their airways clear etc, and everything else that goes on in my class in day, it seems ludicrous to me to change the entire staff team, espcially with me going off on maternity. how can this be considered safe practice?!! Kids parents are going to freak when they find out and quite frankly I don't blame them. I've voiced my opinion with management, but it seems they are going to take no notice and dig their heels in....
Also selfishly thinking, returning to work next year will only be harder if it is back into a team who will be well established in their routine by then and never worked with me before or know how I do things, stamping my 'authority' or remotely feeling part of it that late in the year will be really difficult when I won't have built any sort of relationship with them.
So anyway, to vent it out a group of us went to Harvester for tea tonight to cheer ourselves up, lovely evening, completely stuffed!!
Cherry - liking new list!
Also on the sleeping/cot issue, I've been tormenting myself about it. We have zero room in our bedroom (tiny), there is absolutley no space for a cot, and we've been struggling to think about how we can arrange things to even fit in a moses. Had resolved to just put baby straight into her own room, (don't flay me!) but I feel ever so guilty about it. Sooo, found a possibilty I hope can work, put a moses infront of built in wardrobe (littlest of spaces still), in the night, even if it is only for a few weeks until we know where we are with night feed routines and I know baby is settled. It will mean she'll be at the foot of our bed. Not directly next to us, but this will be ok yeh? I need reassuring ladies as I'm feeling awful I can't have her next to me through the night to reassure her. This is my best plan so far. Just hope a moses fits there now, otherwise we are back to own room and me feeling like the meanest Mummy in the world!! How long do babies fit into moses btw?!
Right time for bed I think. And whoever said about the heartburn, it is totally rubbish isn't it. But I think I can cope with it better than the constant sickness of 1st trimester. (at the moment!). I think mine is a bit self inflicted though, I'm indulging in far to many treats. If I just behaved and stayed away from the lovely sweet chocolaty foods I'm sure I wouldn't suffer for it afterwards!
Anyway, night and love to all. Sorry for going on a lot again! x