Alicia/Daytona's Mummy - I'm sorry to hear you have the baby blues. A friend said to me to remember that around 3 weeks post baby (which is now for you and me others, as a quite a few of us have had our babies on 12 Jan), all the happy hormones have left the building, and the 'come-down' is really not that pleasant. It kinda makes sense, and I've been happy with thinking along these lines...this way, you can get a bit of distance between the situation and all the 'what if's', or potentially guilt ridden situations that arise. Keep talking to your DH/DP, it definitely helps. Yesterday, my DH and I went for lunch, and left Darcey with my Mum. We were only gone for 1.5 hours, it felt so strange to be away from her, and although throughout lunch we kept talking about her, it also felt amazingly good to talk to my DH about nothing (the weird hairstyle at the table next to us, gossip about some friends, his work commitments etc etc). I felt like a human being again, not the milk machine recovering from a c/s who rarely leaves the house. Anyway, just trying to help....
Oops, not going to have a chance to write any other personals again. Darcey is very, very upset today. We've had hardly any sleep again. She wouldn't sleep for more than 15 minutes at a go last night/today (from 5.30pm last night)...and the non-stop crying has been very testing. She's normally so calm, so patient, and sweet, that the emergence of her alter-ego, Grismerelda, has really knocked me for six. It started off as just very bad wind, and is now just over-tiredness.
Really have to go now, she's crying again. Sorry for the selfish post.....But you know how it is!!!
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