November 2012 - BFPs? Already? You girls are going to have some fun!

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aw Eliza sorry to hear about your dad! but sweetpea I second what she says ...its so good you recognise your black dog reappearing on your shoulder ...that's half the battle it sneaks up on you!
so speak to someone good news is that perhaps it is just lack of sleep this time.
I had a few days like that about a month ago thought I was going crazy everyone on here was great and it passed.
dd was also woken by dh alarm and plodding about this morn ... I said it was him that had woken her but he said that he was being quiet ...
I believe him but was like an elephant in a ballet.
after hearing lily story I made sure I told him I love him! so thankful we can share this together and that when he gets through the door we share raising her - we both ask or say when we would like a wee!

oh and can't rem if it was yw who asked about walking 7yr old ... I think you should say something. I at 10 used to walk my 7 yr old sister to school (one lollipop crossing) ... and remember reading something and thinking I wouldn't be able to do that now. not sure if it is the application of the no home alone under 14 rule?
time for transfer back I could do with getting dd up early to see if she will go down earlier than 12 too but don't have the stamina!

Matchsticks needed please.
I am thankful for calpol, that is all.

Off to catch up now with a

bloody world book day. that is all.

She has forgotten how to sleep! I am sure of it . She slept for 3 10min bursts on.me last night and about 40mins on dp. Every transfer attempt resulted in tears. Tired is not the word.

To make matters worse, just as she dosed off on dp the sodding garage phoned. 10.45 (yes, quarter to 11 ) to say their recovery truck was broken and they'd phone in the morning to rearrange?!? The crash happened 9 days ago. I havent been told when it is going to be collected, and had they turned up after 10pm last night anx started crashing about with recovery trucks I would have been furious. As would my neighbours. I am going to complain to the insurance company again today, this is taking the piss now.

I am thankful Matilda is in a very smiley loveable mood this morning even if I am not

There's no minimum age to leave a child a home in supervised. There's a recommended age but no law.

I would mention it vq just so the school are aware.

I have a cold. I feel like shit. Oh well :(

Yep sweetpea am a daughter of depression (or granddaughter actually) and think that you need to speak out, you shouldn't go through the dark days alone and with a bit of gentle hand holding there is a way out. I teetered on the edge for a while when my mum died, I only realise I now and no one seemed to notice, or that is what I thought, I thought it would look like I couldn't cope if I went to bereavement counselling. I couldn't and there is no harm in admitting it.

The red cheek has subsided a bit. He is now getting uber cross at tummy time.

no min age

It was very hard to get up at half 7 this morning contra but having a toddler tunelessly singing along to postman pat at the top of her voice downstairs definitely helped There is a small part of me that enjoys waking N up in the morning - I often tell her it's so she she knows what it feels like!

brockle I feel your pain. DS1 has gone to nursery as Mr Happy. Only he won't wear it. " no want it"

I am forever thankful for my little girl. And thankful for her thumb which found its way into her mouth .

Sweetpea, it's good that you have spoken out, grab all the help you can get. We are all here for you. Depression is such an understated illness but very serious. My OH got very very depressed the last 3 months of his life, it was heartbreaking to see someone not only battling with physical problems but with mental too.

I have one sir Charlie stinky socks and one Batman who was going as the BFG but changed his mind at the last minute agh!

not sure what Y thinks of it all

I am thankful for F and how much I love her. I am thankful for how my mum always knows the right thing to say. I am thankful for the cup of tea I've just guzzled.

I am NOT thankful for this fecking cold. Worst nights "sleep" ever in the pig household. I went up to bed at 9.30, dh texted to say he would be home by 10 so I stayed up. He walked into the room, coughed, farted and slammed a cupboard door, which woke F up. And awake she stayed until 1.30. Then all night she was trying to feed/suck fists for comfort, but getting cross and overtired. I didn't check her temperature in the night, it's ok now but she's just been in a vest since the middle of the night as she was so hot.

For those of you struggling with your mood, my mum said to me last night to remember that, even if you feel the whole world hates you, there is one little person who has unconditional love for you and to whom you are everything.

Welcome newbies, grab a and pull up a seat!

PR I'm with you on being thankful for vaccines and am really not looking forward to today's set. At least DP was with me for the first lot but today am going it alone. Must stop being a wimp and remember they're better than her catching the nasties they're protecting against.

MM I cannot believe what you've gone through with your car. We're they really expecting to collect it at that time?! Madness! A complaint is very justified!

Horsey feed a cold with tonnes of chocolate right?

sweetpea get help if you need it. I am thankful that my depression has stayed away but I remember how horrible it felt and you shouldn't have to go through that again, hugs.

Hope you end up home soon eliza, glad LO is being well cared for bless her

yw I kept a spray bottle handy when cats were about in my room too, they can decide to go loopy at silly hours and it was the quickest way to make them stop

kirrin that's a good idea, I might try that. I am nervous as fuck about a first aid course but I am determined I can manage that. Maybe not on my own, maybe dp will have to come too but I will try! It might be useful for him to go too though anyway.

Today I am thankful I did indeed get a good nights sleep, ds has fed and is back asleep and I had time for a shower. I am insanely thankful dp is back tomorrow, I have missed him much. I'm always thankful for you all, keeping me sane through my somewhat less severe than what alot of you are going through more difficult bits of being a mum. Not to say I dot enjoy it but on those harder days or nights you lot keep me going! I am thankful my family are relatively healthy and as lovely annoying as fucksticks on a cold morning. I am thankful a thousand times over for coffee!

Cannot remember anything else, as per bastarding usual! I didn't swear much yesterday so will make up for it today at my leisure :)

bplp that was a lovely thing your mum said, I will try to remember that even when he's screaming his little lungs out at me and making me feel all flappy and unsure and certainly disliked!

Rant alert. My appointment with the nurse that I had today has been cancelled as she is off sick. I have waited two weeks for that appointment. I phoned the surgery in tears. I just want to rip this fucking Mirena out. I had it put in on 23 Jan and have only had about 3 days not bleeding. I can't cope with the bleeding anymore this now means I have been bleeding for 14 weeks of the 17 weeks Oliver has been alive.

I have fucking had enough.

Everytime it slows down to spotting I think this might be the end and then the next day is like a period again.

Am I bits reading about Matilda Mae who died at 9 months. Proper sobbing. An off to hold my LO really tight.

bp lovely thing to say

sophia call the family planning clinic or ask GP to remove it? Kick up a stink and you will get help. Do not be fobbed off.

I emailed the school Head. Thank you for the feedback all x

Pikz that story stayed with me for so long after reading it. Her mum is someone who I've followed on Twitter for years as we work in the same field, and I followed her pregnancy, birth and first few months keenly as we were ttc at the same time.

Heartbreaking.

The DR is going to phone me tomorrow. Poor show I think. Have just seen someone on the family planning threads with same issues as me who is also fucked off ( sorry having my own sweary Thursday) so at least I don't feel like IABU.

pikz bloody hell! really wish I had not googled.

Super speedy post . .

VQ I know of a situation like this where the only reason the younger (P1 and nursery!) got to school was because the 8 yo walked them there. School knew and tried to address it on numerous occassions. To my knowledge there was no 'rule' but universally acknowledged that it was not on. Do contact the school just to be sure that they know - if the family are new to the area then they might have slipped under the radar

lily I occasionally suffer with back pain now. I had a 55 hour back to back labour and an epidural so I've put it down to that.

Not a good night. C has got a cold and all I could hear all night was him coughing and spluttering.

pikz that is awful . made me rush to check O in his cot.

back pain yep still suffering here. In fact it kept me awake last night. No back to back labour for me, although did have an epidural.

Thanks for your kind words everyone . I suffered with depression until I fell pregnant so know what I am dealing with. May be back because the protective effect of pregnancy hormones have worn off.

Am hoping it is not true depression though and just lack of sleep. If this bollocking sleep regression would bugger off maybe I would find out. He's only 14 weeks though, so still got the 4 month sleep crap to come. Maybe its the effect of his jabs last week? Who knows.

No RL support to speak of. OH is pretty ignorant and unsympathetic about MH issues and it caused a lot of rows last time. He already thinks I'm rubbish with O so don't want to give him any more ammunition. I do have a lovely GP though