morning all
well, I went to work yesterday to attend a meeting and catch up on a few things. Was not too bad and I sort of remembered how I used to quite enjoy my job. I have serious concerns about fitting it all in when I go back though as the lady covering my position said the whole team including her worked til 8pm on average for 3 months to complete the budget , sometimes til 9pm. I intend leaving at 4.55pm every day . Was totally shattered by the end of the day though. My mum looked after ds and declared him to be 'a joy' and my norks were fine.
Feeding ds with a spoon seems to be having a positive effect on his sleep. Monday night he woke crying at 10.30pm so I bf him (teeth?) then he woke at 4.20am then back to sleep after a feed til we got up at 6.30am. Last night ds woke crying at 11pm. I bf him and applied calgel and he slept til 6.20am WOW and double WOW.
oops sorry to hear you did not enjoy sing and sign - the teacher is crucial in these things. I went to TinyTalk and it was very nice. Hope to make some more friends as met some lovely ladies there. Hope you have some good news about your dad later
no1 I am at your mum never looking after your dcs. Sounds like your dh and you need some quality time together just the 2 of you. Hope you manage to sort something out.
dizzy look forward to the pics of all this work!!
cc hope you manage to get your dh in for a check up. Nagged my dp to go to the drs for 2 years re feeling odd - he went and they found his blood pressure was off the scale at 180 over 110 so he was straight onto the tablets. It's best to get these things checked out.
lol at Joe and Emma's faceplants
poppy your girls are just gorgeous.
lwfh hope you blocked duct is now sorted
steak I really feel very reading your posts. I would feel very isolated in your position and the language barrier makes it so much more difficult. My sister lived in Paris for 4 years and is now near Lausanne - her experience of French drs is that they are not pro bf - one told her he recommends all his mothers to ff cos he's seen such terrible problems from bf . You mentioned your dh wants to try purees - not sure why a 7 month old needs purees - as Izzy is blw-ing she can probably handle any form of food. The last few days I have fed ds porridge with apricots and prunes chopped into it and lunch is quinoa cooked with lentils and sauteed veggies - I can be sure of getting quite a lot into him if I spoon it in and he likes to help guide the spoon into his mouth. For pudding he feeds himself fruit - so we're now doing a mixture or spoon feeding and blw. And I give him some bread/toast crusts to chew on as a snack sometimes. I do think it's contributed to the longer sleeps. I wanted to do full blw but if this way we all get some more sleep, then so be it. I agree with taking supplements - if only to keep the dr/dh quiet, and they'll do you no harm. My sister is similar in body shape to you - 5 ft 9 and around 8 stone and always has been - she says now she's back at work and her 7 mth old is ff at the creche, she has dropped 2 bfs and feels a lot less tired - I think it's because she has low reserves of fat that the bf was making her tired. Sorry, whittering on now!!