boy it's hard to find the new thread!

thanks to everyone who read my birth debrief (it's not expected) and for your words of encouragement. Meredith, I would really like counselling about it, have asked the hospital and ChildYouthHealth nurses, it all comes down to money. i googled Bandl's Ring tonight, we were indeed fortunate to have it happen in this country (if it had to happen at all).

Glad your burn is progressing so well Christie.

i had so many personals to respond to - now it's hard to remember all the names and what story went with what name!!!

to the mums battling with colic.reflux - that is so hard (we had that about a month ago).

Olivia - i agree with the hands on learning. When you are so tired anyway, any other kind just goes in one ear and out the other. I spent a day with a midwife at CHildYouthHealth learning to settle tiny bilby - it made the world of difference to us. To be told a technique, ask about it, then actually practicise it in front of midwife and talk over any queries on the spot. it was great, tiring but great.

and another thing Olivia - YOU ARE NOT LAME!

I have no family support in real terms, just dh who is at work six days a week. I don't know what i would do without my parenting support worker. She is there to help me from tiny bilby's arrival to when tiny bilby turns three. It's like having a surrogate mum i guess, someone to ask all those questions to.

the only family i have is one auntie who i think will be great once tiny bilby is older (like three) but she is very nervous around babies. She means well and contacts me bout once a week to see if i need any food shopping done. She means well.

oh, and the Parenting Helpline - that magnet is on the fridge always!!
and the Aust Breastfeeding Assoc helpline too.
that is where i get my support from. and all the lovely people i meet online on threads like this.

Still in process of buying a new to me car. Can't wait to be independent again, first thing i will do is take tiny bilby to get that rota virus thing, then to the anticancershop to get her a legonairres hat with straps so we can go to a park without me being worried about her burning. Then playgroup! yeh! Can't wait to be around other mums with bubs her age - like this group online but in real life!! lol

anything to leave these four walls.