Snuggly She won't nap on me either though really, if she did then I would do as you suggest and just watch a lot of Netflix, that's what I did a lot when she was smaller, but now she won't sleep on us really either, only in the pushchair, and still only for 20 or 30 minutes even then. I wouldn't mind except she cries all the time from being overtired. Today she was awake from 1pm until she fell asleep in the pushchair at about 7.15pm, but she cried and rubbed her eyes on and off from about 3pm, and then woke up at about 8pm, and DH is currently trying to get her to go to sleep for the night now by rocking her on his legs for the last 15 mins...but I know in the grand scheme of things this is only a small portion of her life.
Grass The HV here just seem to tell you where your local Children Centres are and tell you to contact them to see what they have going on, they never seem to know about anything else. I do already go to a nice one for under 1s on Thursday afternoon at one of them and another for under 1s on Friday afternoon at another. And yesterday I went to 'Storytime' in another local church hall for the first time which was ok, the people there were all really nice, it was a bit 'churchy' which I wasn't expecting and I'm not a Christian, not sure if I should have said or not
but I will probably continue to go as DD seemed to enjoy it. I may take her to another new one in a different church tomorrow morning but it's at 9.30am so not sure if I will be ready in time/have the courage. I am smashing this week though tbh! Two new playgroups in one week so far! Go me (special thanks to diazepam, but still...).
Thanks for the reassurance about the speed of passport returns, fingers crossed. We go away on the 28th Feb so a fair few weeks time. I just worry stupidly about everything. Love the baby passport photos, would put up DD's as it's super cute but don't want to reduce my relative anonymity (or lack of) even more
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Just Yes I do think always think my anxiety and poor mental health may affect DD. I convinced myself when she was a constantly crying newborn that she may have been like that because I was so horrendously anxious throughout my pregnancy and I'm sure I read during my pregnancy some research indicates that anxiety during pregnancy is linked to certain behaviours in babies like crying more and sleep problems etc. I mean that obviously doesn't mean causation but yeah. But even if so, what can I do about it? I try my best. I am starting my CBT tomorrow, DM is watching DD for a few hours for me while I go.
Well done to Girlie's DD.
DH has his driving test tomorrow morning (2nd attempt). Fingers crossed! It would be ace if he passes and when I get my PIP money through we need to do some number crunching but I'm hopeful it will mean we can afford the insurance for a car as that will be astronomical.