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Hi all, welcome catc, hello foxy!
Can't offer any advice re anything! What you need for crying babies is MY DAD who is happy to walk up and down for hours with LOs (it seems we were all such appaling babies he is well used to it. I believe he must be the original new age man!) He did exactly that with pootle tonight at his house while I brought DS2 home (tired out from being forced to go to playgroup) and put him to bed (they only live round the corner, honest, he's not in the next county or anything)
Guess what? My DH changed his first nappy today (I blame Gordon Ramsey...) He wa going to do the one this morning where pootle pooed right into the foot of his babygro! But obviously he changed his mind.
We have also had a lovely gift from the people he works for today, but I am still SO pissed off (last week he got a cut in wages for having only worked 3 days of his PL that week, yet this week he has to work 6 days - which will amount to somewhere between 50-70 hours - for no extra) and he was going to hand in his notice today, but now probably won't. I have begun to notice a pattern, they are bloody awful to him all week and then Saturday nights are all sweetness and light so he doesn't walk out and leave them up shit creek for Sunday lunch! Sorry, very boring subject, just gets to me and is the most likely thing to bring back my depressive tendencies.