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FrankenSoph73 · 21/10/2008 11:41

Thought as the messages were coming in thick & fast I´d start new thread. Don´t know if it´ll work though. Fingers crossed.

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scorpio1 · 30/10/2008 15:32

OMa - thats not aiming low, it sounds lovely!! I got a book off my shel to read 4 days ago, and haven't started yet....

I shall! I'm going to buy a tartan mimi skirt tomorrow. Have lost weight (knew this would have a good side )

Please look after yourself

scorpio1 · 30/10/2008 15:32

LOL OMa - see he is worth it

TheShipsCat · 30/10/2008 15:34

Sorry, x-post, it sounds less like PND now you've explained it all . FWIW, I rarely speak to adults at all, and DH never back till 9 or 10 too. But I've taken to talking to myself a lot.

OMaLittle · 30/10/2008 15:34

She gets pats. Many pats. I have left her for up to 15 minutes (because I fall asleep again) but no longer than that. She is quite a tenacious little screamer and definitely more of a mummy's girl than DD1 ( - kind of). She is in her own room now and sometimes I turn the sound off on the monitor so I don't wake up unless she's being pretty loud.

TSC, I wonder that, too, but isn't it a bit late? Definitely over the last couple of weeks I have been feeling less 'right'. I feel like myself quite infrequently, I must say. I really don't want to have it but that attitude isn't going to help, is it?

scorpio1 · 30/10/2008 15:36

NO, Oma, its NOT too late to get it at all. It's a horrid thing because it creeps up on you... and the thing about her being loud before you go, i think, is the best idea.

SalLikesCoffee · 30/10/2008 15:36

lol at TSC being one of your fans despite not having met you, Oma. I'll join your fanclub, I think you're a wonderful person (and quite obviously a great mom if you look at how happy Poppy was last time I saw you). Btw, this is the perfect place to moan away sometimes even if nothing is wrong (or noticeably). And obviously not that I'm glad you're a bit down, but sometimes hearing others struggling a bit too makes me feel more normal and not such a whimp.

Consider going to gp, even if you think it's just tiredness. I had to see gp for my epilepsy medication prescription renewal the other day, and I mentioned (well, kind of tried to joke it away, but it really happened) that I thought I was going nuts, because I couldn't go to sleep even though I was tired, and would keep repeating stupid things in my mind - eg a sentence etc. ).
Hmm, that does sound a bit crazy, doesn't it. Anyway, she was wonderful, saying not to be silly, it's just tiredness and stress, which builds up and eventually makes you down a bit. She gave me sleeping tablets to only take when needed, and I've used it once now and it was wonderful to just sleep one whole night, and now it's better again. So if you could do something like that (maybe on a weekend night), get dh to give bottles all night (if you want obv), and just have time for a "reset".

I'm flying out on Saturday evening (6pm). A little worried about the 11 hr flight on my own, but I guess it's been done lots before, so can't be all bad. Worst case I'll just pretend it's not my baby and roll my eyes at the inconsiderate passengers bringing babies on overnight flights

TheShipsCat · 30/10/2008 15:37

I don't think its too late, isn't it up to a year? If you've definitely being feeling something different, a doc might be a good place to start, or at least an hv...

scorpio1 · 30/10/2008 15:37

And no-one else will know you have it; it doesnt come with a neon sign - no-one will know you 'have' something.

TheShipsCat · 30/10/2008 15:40

Sal - I took ddq on long haul flights when she was 9 months. I won't go into how awful it was , but it was interesting that I was the only person on the plane who hadn't given their dc a little something to help them sleep. ~Medised, mostly. I am not a big one for dosing, but I would definitely have some in my hand luggage if I was going to fly long haul again...

OMaLittle · 30/10/2008 15:40
  • phew. I talk to myself a lot, and will no doubt feel better now I'm talking to you guys too. I get a bit shit about picking up the phone when it rings as I feel like I don't have anything interesting to say. It's so annoying how all these things are self-perpetuating.

Scorpio, meant the novel I have started am writing! But you're right, finishing the book I've been reading for three months a while would probably be more therapeutic... Love the idea of a tartan mimi skirt!! Don't lose any more weight, you must be skinnemyminnemy already if you're 9st at your height. You should eat some chocolate as an act of civic duty to stop the rest of us feeling like fat old hags.

SalLikesCoffee · 30/10/2008 15:41

I might be making this up, but for some reason I'm convinced that I read once that PND is more common a couple of months after the birth.

TheShipsCat · 30/10/2008 15:41

sorry for shit typing, baby on lap.

scorpio1 · 30/10/2008 15:44

I think thats correct too, Sal.

OMa - i didnt know you wrote! Goodness! I have to confess my book is only chick lit ....I have eaten today, and will have some tea too.

OMaLittle · 30/10/2008 15:45

Ah, am totally warm-fuzzied up by you lovely people. (and also quite close to tears...)

DD2 has been asleep for AGES. Am totally panicky about her sleeping at the mo (another slight ). Think it was my selfish reaction to poor Tiamummy's thread.

Sal, I always think of you as massively cheerful! I never think of you as a wimp at all.

Think maybe I will go to the GP. All is definitely a bit awry inside my skull. LadyBee, did you get ADs? Are you still on them? (don't answer if you don't want!)

SalLikesCoffee · 30/10/2008 15:47

Oh, great tip, thanks TSC. I've "decided" not to dose him, but then again, I've been known to always occasionally change my mind, so would be good to have it to hand in case.

How I'd love to write. As it currently is, I haven't even read anything, never mind being creative... I'm convinced I'll wake up one day and be absolutely brilliant. Until then I'm using the Metro as my source of information. (Tried pretending I haven't lost all touch with my old world one day by reading the FT, but it just looked particularly sad with a bottle in the other hand...)

scorpio1 · 30/10/2008 15:48

I went on ADs for the first month after Mimi for safeguard, i stopped then thogh and have been ok....

I nearly had to go to hospital with PND last time, i dont mind sharing anything?

SalLikesCoffee · 30/10/2008 15:49

Ah, thanks Oma. (I fake it all, inside I'm a little baby most of the time...)

scorpio1 · 30/10/2008 15:49

Sal, medised is not being sold for under 3s or something like that anymore...

SalLikesCoffee · 30/10/2008 15:53

Hmm. Will read up on why. If it's just precautionary (like Neurofen that just shouldn't be used together with other meds), I'll lie and say it's for my 4-year old. Thanks for the warning. (Obviously won't use if bad.)

My mom was a chemist (well, not for ages, she gave it up when she had us), and she said it always shocked her how people would buy drugs to dose their children, then leave them in the CARS!!! while they danced away at parties! (old days where Friday night dances (not club type thing) were common).

TheShipsCat · 30/10/2008 15:58

I think its OK if you don't give any other paracetamol products and stick strictly to dosage...
But the good thing Sal is that you are going to SA, so the time difference isn't too bad, is that right? The jet lag was one of the worst things - all that effort to get dd1 to sleep at night, and then we fly away and she's up all night and asleep all day. (although it did mean we could go out at night and the bar staff would take dd1 off to play, leaving us to drink!)

TheShipsCat · 30/10/2008 16:01

Oma- def go to GP. You've got nothing to lose except half an hour, and possibly a lot to gain by getting it diagnosed now, if it is PND. And you get to talk to an adult in RL in the day! It's all good...

SalLikesCoffee · 30/10/2008 16:03

Yes, that's right. Now with the clock changing there's 2 hours difference, so not much. It's also summer there now, so would be great (although I have to admit to loving coats to cover everything, my skin is pale beyond belief and I can't be bothered with fake tan. Oh, and it'll mean I have to shave my legs every day. Rediculous! )

SalLikesCoffee · 30/10/2008 16:34

If anyone is looking for Christmas presents for children, this is the greatest book I've seen in ages. Just brilliant.

TheShipsCat · 30/10/2008 16:45

That looks good...

Just seen that my neighbour has come back from a fishing trip. We have a tacit agreement whereby he drops a fish on our doorstep and I leave a cake/ homemade chutney/ something on his doorstep. Aaah, I don't have time to make a cake. What to do? Is a midnight-made lemon drizzle possible? What do you think I can get away with?

SalLikesCoffee · 30/10/2008 17:06

What a great tradition. Nice fresh fish - I'm jealous! I assume no chutney hiding around the cupboards that you have forgotten about? Does he work "normal" office hours? If not, what about fresh muffins first thing tomorrow morning? They're quick and lovely!