Hey @teainbed @1004Rise @Givealittlebit @Walkerbean16 @savagehk and @crazyzooo !!
I'm so glad some of you are still hooked up to this thread - it's lovely to hear from you!
I'm doing much better thank you. I have a strapping 9 month old, 9.5 kilo son! It's been an up and down ride since I last posted regularly. As was probably pretty obvious at the time, I had pretty horrendous pnd and anxiety, hugely driven by lack of sleep, lack of support at home and pressure to work. I started working regularly again in September (albeit from home to breastfeed) and we hired a nanny to facilitate this. On paper it all seemed like a good idea but the reality was pretty harsh, particularly as we got hit with the big sleep regression around then, that lasted a good 3 months until we night weaned at xmas to save my sanity all over again (think 2 hourly wake ups for nights on end). I'd sit hunched over my laptop in the day, a sweaty sleep deprived mess, trying to remember what i'd agreed to do for clients! I shudder when I look back...
How are you all doing? Have any of you gone back to work yet, and how are you finding it? I'm writing this in a hotel room on my second ever night away without him since he was born (work trip). I felt awful earlier, guilty and sad, but after a bath and a pumping session, and a large wine, I've cheered up a bit .
@crazyzoo how is the sleep going? We don't feed overnight anymore but teething has swiftly replaced our brief but blissful slumbers with something more painful than a quick breastfeed! I have slept on the floor next to his cot a couple of times in the last week to soothe him after some middle of the night paracetomol. He's only cut one tooth so far, so I can only imagine a load are coming at once...
@1004Rise oh the nappies! Quite apart from my fascination at what's in them, I've had to go to pull ups now as my son likes to roll onto his front and drag himself off the changing mat the second I put him down. He can't quite crawl yet but it's...challenging!
Can't wait to hear all yours and your baby's news - weaning, sleeping, working, babbling, crawling, standing, swimming, laughing... it's utterly mad and magical, isn't it?