Have just had time for the first time today to check posts on this thread. Drop in weighing session today, Danny sprayed the area around himself with his normal impeccable timing, and then when I went to grab something to mop up with, an older woman who I think was probably the grandmother of the baby next to me stood between me and my Danny, who was fed up and screaming at this point - the clinic worker tried to ask her nicely to move out my way a bit and she very briefly did, then stepped straight back. I wouldn't have minded but all she seemed to be doing was holding out a cardi, the baby's mother was putting on the important clothes herself. Such rudeness.
Aah well, he had put on a little more weight even since Wednesday, so hopefully that will be noted by someone and they'll be happy. And the next of these clinics the health visitor called me and asked me to go and see her at 10, so I should avoid the queue and the melee in that room next time, and after that I think I will look for alternatives to going every fortnight, it was a bit of a headache. If he has another medical appt the same week, he surely doesn't need to go to these as well.
Off now to progress a little further with the task of documenting Danny's existence in the world - registering with the GP or finding out how, getting photos taken for a passport etc etc.
Sorry you're feeling down Ellen, hope all's going well for people more generally.
I will have to start packing Danny's newborn clothes which he will outgrow in a matter of days up in a reasonably organised way so that I can find them if I have a second baby, or if I don't so that I can pass them on or sell them. I have been given the vast majority of clothes and by others, as mix of new baby gifts and bagloads from people who've finished having babies, so when it's time to part with them I feel I should pass them on or donate them via Freecycle to a charity or other place that can use them (hospital ward, refugee centre, whatever).