I'm not really depressed so feel a bit guilty being on this topic but I do get bouts of feeling really down (I usually bounce back)for a day ot two. Last night I was feeling really low/guilty about DS whose 9mths starting nursery in a few weeks. He's only going 3 days a week so that I can go back to work. I'm very lucky that I've been able to have extra time off with him on mat.leave and if we tightened our belt we could just scrape by without me going back to work but I found being at home with DS very tough and I need - I think - the stimulation of work. I also have personal reasons that having being an only child my mother gave up work to look after me (things were very different for her 30 odd years ago)I felt somewhere along the line she wasn't quite fulfilled and lacked stimulation. I don't always love my job but its a reasonable one and I work with a good bunch of people and I feel (sometimes!) that its worthwhile (important to me). I feel really bad about DS going to nursery especially as we could just manage but I'm not sure I'm cut out to be a SAHM (all credit to them) and would get down and frustrated. I know I'm very lucky as I have a lovely child a great dp and am ok domestivally ifykwim so really I just need a kick up the backside its just that every so often I feel cr*p about it all. Feel better for putting it down in writing - thanks