Hi all, just wanting a bit of advice/help/kind words.
I have a just gone 7 year old daughter and currently 33 weeks pregnant with our second daughter. She’s due 7th December. My partner is due to go away for work on the 20th November and isn’t back till the 6th January (he’s in a pantomime 1 hour 20 mins away) when we decided to try for a baby again we didn’t realise it would happen so soon! (Literally took a month if that) so basically my worry and stress is how il cope when he’s away. They have only given him 2 days off for when I go into labour then he’ll have to go back. He’ll be here for Xmas day but that’s about it really till he’s back in January. It’s been along time since I did the newborn thing and I’m panicking how I’m going to cope on my own with the tiredness, recovery and taking care of both kids on my own. There’s no room at my parents house for us to stay there so that isn’t an option, obviously I can go there but at the end of the day il be at home on my own. I don’t want to fail and it all get too much for me. Has anyone else experienced anything similar with partner having to go away with work so soon? Also I don’t get along with my mother in law very well as she’s very controlling etc so she isn’t really an option to ask for help either, thank you