Hi all!
broody, it sounds like your business is going well! DH and I have come to an agreement that I'm home by 5pm to look after Tessa, and he has her during the day. I'm still doing a couple hours work between 6am and whenever she wakes up, which is a bit tiring, as it feels like I am constantly on the run. MIL is current visiting for a few weeks to help out, so DH can work on his studies, so I've also been taking advantage of it to work longer hours.
pink, wow, lots of words! I was going to ask if anyone has them yet. Tessa makes lots of sounds, and sometimes might be saying words, but I can't really tell yet! We've been doing sign language, and she only recently picked up her second sign.
She's walking quite a bunch, now. We got little soft shoes for her, and she walked outside for the first time this week!
Tessa is also still very much breastfeeding, but I think I'm just going to let her take her own pace there. She goes quite long during the day without me (up to 11 hours recently), and has been fine. She'll come up to me and sign milk when I come home, but only after finishing whatever she's playing with.
And funny you ask that, pink. Yesterday I would have said no, but I'm now wondering... I wanted to ask how everyone's periods returned? Mine only came back three and a little months ago, and the first one was barely spotting, the second one slightly heavier spotting, and the third required a pad but only for one day. My friend said hers came back just like normal.
I wondered if maybe I could be pregnant but not noticed yet? But then I'd be something like 3 months pregnant or more, and I would have expected SPD to start up again. And then I woke this morning with symphis pubis pain! I think I may be buying a test later this week... I hope not, as I haven't been doing any pregnancy things, like taking folic acid (can you do that while breastfeeding?) or avoiding soft cheeses or the cat box! We weren't really planning on another soon or at all, but if it happened by accident, well, maybe it wouldn't be so bad for Tessa to have a little playmate? I'll wait and see.