Jajis
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Bahaha, I survived (although it was horrible, and there have been several more since, I swear the boy never stops!) and I'm back 
I think I spotted his second tooth starting to come through today, which might explain the sore and spotty bum I found when I went to change the nappy. So, anyway, what was I actually going to say?!
We've started weaning now, currently doing purées, but will be moving on to lumpy stuff and finger food quite soon. We've not yet found any food that Alex doesn't like! Are any of you giving your babies vitamin drops? I was told that he ought to have them because I'm breastfeeding, but he absolutely HATES the ones we have. Have any of you found a brand that your baby actually likes?!
He's always been pretty active (he barely stayed still while he was inside me, I don't know why I'm so surprised that he won't stay still now there's a whole world to explore), but about a month ago he started to crawl and (as you may have seen in the thread I posted the other day) he can now pull himself up into a standing position holding on to his cot bars
Now that he's worked it out, he'll do it pretty much whenever he can now. Obviously I am proud of him, but life was much, much easier when he was less mobile!
I've just extended my maternity leave, so I won't be going back until August - I am so relieved (and lucky), we're going to be VERY poor, but my OH got a pay rise so we'll be just about okay
I'm finding life in general pretty stressful though, I find it really hard to be organised, and to keep on top of everything which really gets to me, even the smallest things get turned into massive problems and I just freak out and don't sort them because I've turned them into a bigger problem than they are. I don't even seem to be organised enough to remember to drink enough during the day, let alone get all (or quite often, any) of the housework done.
We want to buy our first house, but if we do it'll be in a town about 45 min drive away, so going to see houses takes up a lot of time and energy and means our Saturdays are full up, so we can't do nice things like go out for walks together or anything like that. I also feel completely unsettled because I don't know whether to look for nursery places for Alex here or there (another reason it's a good thing I've extended my mat leave), and I feel completely isolated here 'cos I'm crap at making friends at the best of times, and part of me thinks it's silly to bother trying seeing as we might be moving and then I'd just have to make them all over again.
On top of that I've been having really horrible nightmares again (I think they're caused by stress), which means that even when Alex is asleep (he still has feeds pretty much every three hours, even at night, although occasionally he'll go 5 or 6 hours) I tend to be lying there awake either worrying about things, or because I've woken up crying and am too terrified to go back to sleep in case I have the same nightmare again
Anyway, that's enough 'woe is me' crap, how is everybody else doing?!
I think I spotted his second tooth starting to come through today, which might explain the sore and spotty bum I found when I went to change the nappy. So, anyway, what was I actually going to say?!We've started weaning now, currently doing purées, but will be moving on to lumpy stuff and finger food quite soon. We've not yet found any food that Alex doesn't like! Are any of you giving your babies vitamin drops? I was told that he ought to have them because I'm breastfeeding, but he absolutely HATES the ones we have. Have any of you found a brand that your baby actually likes?!
He's always been pretty active (he barely stayed still while he was inside me, I don't know why I'm so surprised that he won't stay still now there's a whole world to explore), but about a month ago he started to crawl and (as you may have seen in the thread I posted the other day) he can now pull himself up into a standing position holding on to his cot bars
Now that he's worked it out, he'll do it pretty much whenever he can now. Obviously I am proud of him, but life was much, much easier when he was less mobile!I've just extended my maternity leave, so I won't be going back until August - I am so relieved (and lucky), we're going to be VERY poor, but my OH got a pay rise so we'll be just about okay
I'm finding life in general pretty stressful though, I find it really hard to be organised, and to keep on top of everything which really gets to me, even the smallest things get turned into massive problems and I just freak out and don't sort them because I've turned them into a bigger problem than they are. I don't even seem to be organised enough to remember to drink enough during the day, let alone get all (or quite often, any) of the housework done.We want to buy our first house, but if we do it'll be in a town about 45 min drive away, so going to see houses takes up a lot of time and energy and means our Saturdays are full up, so we can't do nice things like go out for walks together or anything like that. I also feel completely unsettled because I don't know whether to look for nursery places for Alex here or there (another reason it's a good thing I've extended my mat leave), and I feel completely isolated here 'cos I'm crap at making friends at the best of times, and part of me thinks it's silly to bother trying seeing as we might be moving and then I'd just have to make them all over again.
On top of that I've been having really horrible nightmares again (I think they're caused by stress), which means that even when Alex is asleep (he still has feeds pretty much every three hours, even at night, although occasionally he'll go 5 or 6 hours) I tend to be lying there awake either worrying about things, or because I've woken up crying and am too terrified to go back to sleep in case I have the same nightmare again
Anyway, that's enough 'woe is me' crap, how is everybody else doing?!
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Its hard work this mummy business. The housework will keep, just do what you can when you can. If it is really bothering you, maybe you could get someone to watch lo for a few hours while you blitz the place, and.then it might be a bit easier to keep on top of just doing a few bits while lo sleeps. 
x
