Hi Nelly, lovely to meet you . Hooray, does that mean I'm not the new girl any more? Anyhow I wish you a lovely girlie night out, but take my word for it, after a year or so of not drinking (much ), your limit will be reached long before it has a chance to affect your LO, haha. Thus speaks one who fondly remembers (or not)the days when a bottle a night was even possible.
Oh I'm so glad we don't have to feel guilty about anything any more. Other MN pages would have us quivering in corners otherwise.
Permission to expand on my holiday - well you did kindly ask Gui, thanks - Provence was great - long late dinners on the terrace, good food, wine (see above), a variety of greenery for M to enjoy sitting under.
Had a major scare when we went to the beach though, took her in a couple of times, she loved it, really loved it!, then I decided to wash the salt off her skin rather than her lick it off, so held her under the beach showers without checking the temperature first OMG how stupid you are saying, but you don't think about it in the moment. Anyway she just went all still, and white, and agghhhh non-responsive, I went into major fluster mode, luckily my sister who is a pre-school teacher was on hand with the right kind of first aid and a few minutes later M was pink again and feeding. Needless to say I felt DREADFUL, thank goodness my sis was there.
It was also the first time M had been around other kids for any time, and her big cousins (7 and 5) kept her entertained for hours with their cricket and football games. Now we're back home it's a big shock to her and pressure on us that we are the only entertainment she's going to get for a while. I can almost (gasp) see that having another child would be a good idea. At least I learnt a few new songs and rhymes from my mum whilst away, anyone who has family close by, I am truly envious.
Isn't it fab that some April babies are sitting and crawling! Mine really hasn't a clue, but will happily pull up to standing and wobble around on tiptoes grasping our fingers. Can't she learn independent locomotion first?!?!?! Please!! My arms are gonna drop off.