I wanted to share a conversation an old lady had with me today because it was really nice!!

I was walking out of the shops this afternoon with 16mo DD on my hips and pushing the pram with all the shopping hanging off it and I stopped as I reached the carpark, to switch hips as my 11kg daughter was feeling VERY heavy on that side and I'd been carrying her the entire 40min shopping trip!! DD refuses to sit in her pram (lately anyway!) even after much persuasion, bribes with food etc you name it LOL (that's another thread!! haha)..... this old lady behind me said "ah, switching hips I see" and I said "yeah my daughter disagrees with her pram" and she smiled and said "yes my eldest daughter was like that" .......

and then we stopped and were chatting about how her eldest daughter was always so strong willed and if she didn't want to do anything then she wouldn't do it etc anyway then she made a comment which touched me and it was "I always remember when she would take up all the bed and my poor husband would end up lying over in her cot pushed out of the bed!!!!" and I laughed at this point and said "really? it's funny you mention that because that is exactly what happened this morning when I woke to find my husband curled up literally IN our daughters cot while she was fast asleep in the bed with me"!!!!! we had a laugh and a chuckle about it and talked about how much hard work these kids can be but that's it's all so worth it etc.....

It was just so lovely to have a woman-to-woman or should I say mother-to-mother chat to an older generation mother who had been there before me, like so many others, but not just about mothering in general, but about co-sleeping. She was letting me know that she had co-slept and it was just so nice to hear that coming from an 'older' generation mother that back in 'those days' they did it alot too, it may just not have been talked about!!!! I haven't been able to have a chat with many older mum's from those generations because like my Mum, she never allowed us in her bed with her as it was strictly for mum and dad only so my Mum can't understand the co-sleeping thing.

After a challenging day today with DD (poor thing is getting 3 molars at once ) it made my afternoon and I just wanted to share that!!