At what point did you realise you really were on your own?

[LeoTheLateBloomer]

DD just threw up everywhere. And I mean everywhere; in her bed, all over herself (including hair), me and the floor (including 3 rugs).

I've been on my own for 2 months and it's the first time I really thought "Shit. There's absolutely no one to come and give me a hand with this."

Did anyone else have a moment like this?

(BTW this is the first time she's ever been properly sick. I'm proud to say I managed to deal with it all without stressing about it and she's now back in a clean bed fast asleep. Who needs a man anyway?! )

As did the medical staff's disapproval when I discharged myself and told them they could do my treatment at home

OMG ladies where did we get these idiots (exes) from ????????

My twin babies & myself had severe gastroenteritus. Spent 10 dys cleaning up vomit & the other (!), hardly able to move myself & desperately trying to keep DSs hydrated. No family or friends close by. I never felt so isolated & never thought I'd get through it. But we did & in a funny way I look back at it all smiling & remembering what a close little unit we were!

Newbabynewmum how's your DD? Have you managed to get her to a doctor?

Chubba keep coming here when you're lonely.

Rubin that's a good point about being a close little unit. I think it definitely makes us feel closer to the DCs when we've got through something together

Hmm, probably when I texted DS's father to tell him of his son's arrival on Xmas Eve (by ELCS) and ELEVEN HOURS later he texted back to say "why didn't you tell me it was today?! Would have loved to have been there." (Of course I had told him). Then he got drunk and deliberately broke his phone and didn't get it fixed (or see the baby) for three weeks because he was "freaking out".

Luckily he's not my XP, we were never in a relationship.

I've had lots of these moments!

when dd was a baby I compleatly ran out of nappies one night, I suddenly realised that there was no one to nip out to the shop for me

Luckily a lovely local friend bought some round although I did think at one point Im just going to have to wrap her in a towel and take her down the shop and cope with all the terrible mother looks!!!

I had a night of dd screaming for a daddy - that was hideous.

When I am tired and she starts playing me up I sometimes really wish there was someone else there to say 'do what your mother says!'

When she does something amazing for the first time and there is no one else there to witness it.

There are lots of good things about being a single parent and I love that its just me and dd - we have lots of fun together but there are those times when I feel just so alone!

Spent all day in hosp today - seriously 9am-6pm entertaining my very unhappy 9mo. Started in a&e and moved to children's assessment unit. They think she has a virus (don't they blame everything on that when they're little?!) - she managed some squash today (under 200ml) and a bit of food. Sent us home saying it should gradually improve. She freaks out when she sees a bottle or a cup though, properly inconsolable for about 30mins.

She was good today though. You know the thing that made me feel alone - I didn't eat or go to the loo all day! I didn't want to leave her alone - she wasn't happy anyway - so yup!

Now trying to make myself go to sleep because I'm certain she's going to wake a million times tonight. Sucks everything being your job sometimes doesn't it?!!

When I was visiting my child in the incubator, the whole day @ the hospital, pumping my breasts for milk and trying to skip in to have a chance to look at my baby, and he would only come around in the stated turns. I should have realized then, it would have saved me a lot of pain. :(