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BeNiceToMySelf

Bangton wrote: »

Everyone wants to label it including OH but i feel like I've gone from freedom and independence to having my life mapped out by this little creature and yes at times i resent it but at times i love it.

yes! my little un is 8 weeks old. for years I wanted a baby and now I feel so silly for wanting one. I was so naive! Sleep deprivation and tiredness make the situation seem so much worse. At home he can scream for hours on end and I just can't settle him. I have to go out to baby groups and push him round shops to just help the day go by. A lot of the time I think about a refund but I definitely couldn't go without him.

IHateDida

BeNiceToMySelf wrote: »

At home he can scream for hours on end and I just can't settle him. I have to go out to baby groups and push him round shops to just help the day go by.

Do you often find yourself walking to the shops/supermarket just for a couple of things that you usually wouldn't bother about but seeing as though it gives you a reason to go out...??!!!

lazywife

Aw Bangton, sounds like the comments of a sleep deprived new mum to me! I found it really hard to adjust to the lack of routine. At work I run on 25 min appts all day, so everything was structured and suddenly I found myself struggling to leave the house before 1pm (at 6months I still have to get up early if we need to leave by 10!??!). If there's more to it than you write down, it might be worth a chat about PND, but I don't know much about it.
Try to focus on why you want your routine. I focused on a structured day as in my head that would make things easier, so I'm crying, or stressing because LO didn't do what I thought he would do (3 days in a row would have a 90 min nap, then the next few days 3 15 min naps?!?!) then realised that if it was making me sad, then the routine wasn't making things easier. Now I know that at some point in the day I'll have 30 mins to do something (eg housework, unpack, washing). Somedays it might be 90 mins, sometimes not until 5.30, but there will be that moment to steal. That's the only "routine" I have now. (and aim to start bedtime at 8pm ish).
Bug hugs.x

lazywife

IHateDida wrote: »

Do you often find yourself walking to the shops/supermarket just for a couple of things that you usually wouldn't bother about but seeing as though it gives you a reason to go out...??!!!

We still go out everyday. Even if it's just a walk round the block, T just gets grumpy if he's home all day.x

BeNiceToMySelf

IHateDida wrote: »

Do you often find yourself walking to the shops/supermarket just for a couple of things that you usually wouldn't bother about but seeing as though it gives you a reason to go out...??!!!

yes, I actually plan visits to shopping centres and retail parks just to have a mooch. Also even a trip to Tescos for salad can take ages with bubs - especially if you look at baby clothing! Before you know it lots of time has passed and you've survived another day!

IHateDida

Anyone this committed with weaning???!!:eek:
http://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/photos/amazing-artistic-breakfast-ideas-1383918181-slideshow/

lobey

I feel exactly the same as you Bangton! My LO is 3.5 weeks now and I've only just started to feel that rush of love on a daily basis in the past week, feel quite ashamed by this now! The first two weeks I was so sleep deprived and didn't understand why she was screaming it just made me always dread the evenings as I didn't (and still don't) know how she'll behave. No one prepares you for how exhausting and draining it can be, though I know now those first smiles are just around the corner!

Sorry for the moan, it's just adapting to the new 'routine' and having no time for yourself that can drive you a bit crazy in the first bit. Having some problems with oversupply of milk too which is making her fussy and having a rigid body at every feed while milk sprays in her face poor baby! Feel like the only way is up from now on

*Nutella*

IHateDida wrote: »

Anyone this committed with weaning???!!:eek:
http://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/photos/amazing-artistic-breakfast-ideas-1383918181-slideshow/

:rotfl: I wonder how he'd react if suddenly one day she decided to stop the madness and he woke up to find a bowl of porridge?.. .

Oh, and if I had to eat peas and carrots for breakfast I'd refuse to get out of bed!

Aimless

There's always one who makes the rest of us look bad Just think of all that valuable sleep time wasted!

Mrshaworth2b

IHateDida wrote: »

Anyone this committed with weaning???!!:eek:
http://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/photos/amazing-artistic-breakfast-ideas-1383918181-slideshow/

She's prob making it harder for herself, imagine if one day she gave the child food as it is, with no design. He'd prob not want it at all!