Mozhe IS NOT going back to work next week after all......

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.....no, have decided to delay it by a week or so......Mr Mozhe is on 'incubator watching' duties....P-in-L's are manning the home front,( and DSsX3...), with nice new aupair....and Mozhe,Nanny and DTs are off to St Barts,( in lovely Carribean...),for a week's sun/swim/chill out !!
Any one been before ? Any pointers ? Off first thing tomorrow......

I did charter a yacht for a day but that was very sedate compared to waterskiing

In fact I slept most of the time and was on the phone to home most of the rest (in between medicinal rum punches to help me sleep of course)

Not sure if I could do it myself, but if Mozhe wants to then that's up to her.

Some of the posts on this thread are shocking imho.

I do have to raise an eyebrow @ waterskiing though

agree with margoandjerry. poor old mozhe, i like her she's funny and different. she's had a big shock, though, i'd just be a bit concerned that it might all hit her when she's away. anyway, i hope that it provides the break you need, moz.

I wouldn't go waterskiing at the best of times.

how "badly" post natal would you be at 27 weeks having given birth to a 1lb baby (physically I mean)? Just wondering, shuold really ask Mozhe, I guess.

This is a joke right?

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custy that babies are shite shtick you have started doing recently is fucking boring

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Take a few sertraline as prophylaxis?

They can self-px though.

I rather suspect that the whole birth experience has an air of unreality to it for you Mozhe. I would be very surprised if you're not in shock, and the whole thing will probably catch up with you big style at some point. I just hope you will be OK if you do go away, and that you have plans in place to come back quickly if you want/need to.

This really sounds like somethingI would expect to read about in a newspaper! Would expect the mother to be a 15yo chav though, and so off to Blackpool rather than the Carib, but certainly not an educated mature woman.
I've heard of mothers (mine included) leaving young babies (by young I mean a few months old) to go away on holidays, but in every case i've come across this was a symptom of severe PND and desperation.
This doesn't sound like the actions of a mentally stable indivisual to be honest. Mozhe, can you speak to a colleague?

Oh enid behave.

This is a joke right?

My mother left me to wake up on my own after an op when I was 9....she had to work.

It still upsets me now that she left me in my "hour of need"

Can you live with yourself when your son is older enough to say "mummy, why did you go on holiday when I needed you" Becuase even if you think he doesn't need you....he does, more than you know.

It's not just now ou have to worry about, but his whole future rests on knowing you stood my him when his need was greatest.

God I remember that feeling of exhaustion and panic when ds was first born, and in fact, if someone had offered me an all expenses holiday, and someone loving to look after ds, I would have gone.

I have no idea how supportive my mother was of me before I was about 2yrs old. Have no memory before that and she wouldn't have been stupid enough to tell me if she wasn't!

"It's not just now ou have to worry about, but his whole future rests on knowing you stood my him when his need was greatest."

Please, get a fecking grip......

Agree JV

What, are the family going to wait until the baby is 5 or 6 and then go, "hey, your mum went on holiday when you were a tiny baby without you"...

I personally couldn't do what the OP is doing but each to her own. Never been to St Barts so cannot comment on the original question either.