Well done for starting this thread, so happy to join you over here.
Hope you are feeling a bit better now Cocoa!
Well, obviously the 'twin' thing is what makes the difference in coping through all this change!
I can't believe how easy I am finding this, which I realise must really grate on some peoples nerves, but Ellie is such an easy baby! I know at some point this is all going to come back and haunt me, but so far.....
I feed at 11.30pm and then Ellie wakes up at 6am for her next feed, occasionally she will wake around 4.30am for a 'munch' She only cries when she wants fed or sometimes when she is getting her nappy changed. I do get a bit tired every now and then, but not utter exhaustion like the rest of you. She does have the habit of demanding her feed, just as I sit down to eat mine though, so I am eating lots of cold dinners at the moment, maybe I should change to Salad!
Anyway, next week.....BIG TEST.....I'm having a 1/2 day at work to see how things go, Ellie is coming with me, so hopefully she will be the little angel she is right now and not turn into some devil child! I was meant to go back at the beginning of July, but I've delayed going back properly until the end of July when
DH will go part time at work, to help look after Ellie, we decided that we did not want any outside help (which is obviously a bit easier to cope with only one baby!)
I went to mother & baby group on Tuesday, but I'm not sure it was for me, just a small group of women sitting chatting with their babies...I kept thinking of all things I could be doing! Anyway, when I left, I forgot my handbag, so I got the receptionist at work to keep an eye on Ellie while I rushed back to get my bag, when I got there they asked where my baby was, and I told them I'd tied her to a lampost...oops, don't think they were impressed with my humour!!!
We had a photoshoot done of Ellie, and they are lovely but truthfully I think some of the photos we have taken are far nicer, I took one of Ellie sitting in my handbag...well Paris Hilton has her Yorshire Terrier...I know how terrible to compare Ellie to a little puppy....but hey it gets worse than that, we had our dog put to sleep about 6 weeks ago, and several times I have called Ellie 'Mitzi', this poor child will be so emotionally damaged as a teenager!!!!!
I have developed cravings for chocolate...BIG STYLE...I can't stop eating, we are meant to lose weight easily at the moment and I think I am putting it on, Oh well, I can join weightwatchers again in 3 weeks, so I don't think I'll worry about it and just enjoy the cravings as I didn't have any during pregnancy.
Now a bit of a personal question.....I am still bleeding slightly after 3.5 weeks, can someone tell me how long this goes on for, should it have stopped by now?
Mandy
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