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Hi Jen

Potty training is starting to go a little better thanks. I think the key is patience with them as things started happening more easily when we were calmer. I am not a patient person so found that hard to deal with! If i can do it, believe me anyone can do it!

How are you feeling now?

Rhi
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Hi Rhi. It sounds as if you are alot more patient than me with. Your little boy seems to be off with a good start bless him. My DF said I would be very impatient with potty training so we both agreed that he will do it!

I am feeling alot more positive lately and am really looking forward to my holiday in 3 weeks and 2 days and counting!

We are going for our first councelling session tonight so not really looking forward to that. our relationship is now on a much better path due to comunication so am hoping she will say you are both fine and don't come again!

How are you feeling today hun?

Love Jen x

Hiya,

I have no patience believe me! My DH ended up having to calm things down and get a routine going as he has more than me. Good to hear DF is willing to take on the challenge of potty training when the time comes. Lucky you! Not many men would be like that! lol

I am glad to hear your feeling more positive. Where are you off to on holiday? I bet the break will do you all good with time to relax well as much as you can with a 10 month old

Good Luck with the counselling session. I hope it goes ok. It is good that things have improved with you and DF as it takes a strong relationship to get through something like this. Sticking together and communication is the key i think.

I am ok ish. Been off work sick today. Have loads going on in my life at the moment that stresses me out easily which isn't good. Won't bore you with the details though as you have enough of your own problems at the mo hun.

Rhi
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Rhi - Don't be silly hun you can share your problems anytime you like.

I'm sorry to hear that you have been poorly hun, are you feeling better now?

The counselling sessions went really well, we didn' really discuss anything new as there has been anything that has been bothering me, which is a good sign.

I'm going to sound like a really bad Mum but we are leaving Gracie at home with her Nanny for 5 days and then My Mum for 2 days. Stephen convinced me that we needed the break on our own and the fact that Grace hates the heat and gets very upset with heat rash I agreed but now it is getting closer it is seeming like a very bad idea! We went last year but as she was only 4 months old I was desperate for the break biut when we got back her routine had all been messed up as my MIL decided it should be chnaged so for 6 weeks she was waking up at 5am every morning!

I suffer with ME and I thought it had completely vanished but the last few weeks it has come back really badly. I woke up at 4 this morning with a herendous temperature and feeling incredibly tired, Grace woke up at 10am and I wasn't feeling well enough to get out of bed, DF thought I was putting it on and got really annoyed that he had to get Grace and feed her when he could be doing stuff to the house. I ended screaming my head off and going back to bed, like a mad possessed woman! If I'm not better tomorrow I think I will call the Doctor out but not sure if he will come to me just because I have ME???????

I hope you have had a nice weekend hun.

Love Jen x

Thanks Jen. That is very sweet of you and i have to admit that everyone on this board has been very supportive and happy to listen to me rant which is not what i expected. It is lovely though.
I am feeling a bit better thanks. I am suffering from depression at the moment so it makes me ill when i get very very stressed which i was like last week and over the weekend coz my damn car broke!

Glad to hear the counselling session went well. Let's hope they keep going that way. Please remember i am also here if you ever need tgo talk hun.

You don't sound like a bad mum at all for wanting a break just the two of you. It will do you some good to have time off and also allow you to grieve properly without having to think about a 10 month old. I hope you have a nice time. When are you going and where?

Sorry to hear about the ME. I hope you are feeling a little better today. It's a shame DF doesn't sound that supportive of it at the mo. Maybe he had got used to you feeling loads better and it is a shock like it is for you for it to suddenly return. Please call the doctor if you are still feel bad and see what they say.

Had a terrible weekend but i will send you an email about that later today. It's a long story so best explained on an email. lol

How was your weekend?

Rhi
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Hi Rhi,

Sorry to hear you are feeling incredibly stressed out at the moment hun. You e-mail me hun and have a good rant jenrivett@yahoo.co.uk.
Have you talked to your doc about it?

My Sister got extremely stressed out and depressed in her pregnancy 6 years ago and unfortunately became very poorly due to her idiot of an ex-boyfriend. She was referred to a phsychiatrist as the Doctor didn't know what he could or couldn't prescribe her. She was given a low dose of anti-depressants and sleeping tablets. They seemed to make her better and it didn't stop her from breastfeeding.

Thank you for the reassurance hun. We are off next Friday and I am now starting to dread leaving Gracie behind. We are off to my Dad's apartment in Spain in Costa Blanca, it is very quiet and peaceful, which is nice to get away from it all and enjoy Spain for what it is.

The ME has thankfully gone away for now. I talked to the councellor about DF not understanding properly and she explained to DF that it is not phsycological and has actually been proven that it is biological and research shows that you can actually be tested for it now. When I diagnosed the consultant said I had a very bad case of it but as I'm young it should die down, which it has so I'm lucky. DF went quiet when the counsellor said she looked it up, so I am hoping that he will be a bit more sympathetic about it.

I'm sorry to hear your weekend was not good hun. Please do e-mail me, I will try to help.

Sending you lots of hugs

Jen x