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Oh Hells, I hate to say it but probably not lol!!! My mum swears that having children robbed her of her memory as well as her figure. I swear she had a rubbish memory to begin with and the chocolate monster took her figure.

Seriously though, it does get better. The first 3 months are awful but it gradually gets a bit better every day until one day you realise taht you havent cried for a wee while. Then maybe a week after that your face will start to ache and you will realise that you have started to smile again.

Its pants when you are in themiddle of it but hang in there.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks Yvie, feeling better today, had a lie in and dh got up with jake, i reckon i've figured why he has turned into a crying little monkey...the little bugger is cutting two teeth!!

I hope my brain does put in a reappearance at some point that chocolate monster seems to get a few people, me included!

Hiya everyone,

Sorry i have been awol for ages everyone. I have now come down with rotten cold so don't feel the best and i am still trying to get my meds sorted. I saw the doc on Friday and he has said i need to start taking them in the mornings again as taking them in the evenings might be the reason i am so wide awake at night. I have my doubts but we will see. The only problem i find with taking them in the mornings is that they make me like a Zombie all day and i hate that. It's like a no win situation for me. I feel low if i don't take them and i feel low as i can't cope as well feeling like a zombie.

I hope everyone else is hanging in there. Hugs to you all.

Happy Christmas to you all

Rhi
xxx

Hi Girls,

Hope you all had a good christmas.

I have gone back to taking my tablets everyday again, just couldn't manage every other.

Cookie, what ones are you on? I have to take mine at night as they make me sleep.

Ds1 came for xmas dinner so that made me feel good it was like my old family was back together, just felt realy low when he left and got far too drunk.

Have a good new year.

jayjay

Oh Jayjay - sorry you felt so poo after DS1 went on xmas day - but how fantastic he chose to spend it with you?! Hope you're feeling a bit more positive for 2008 x

Rhi - your doc needs to sort this out hun - you've been messing about since Lucy arrived with pills hun can't be easy. I know its hard to feel like a zombie but you might find after a while the effects wear off and you feel a little more normal? Being a new mummy is pretty knackering too hun so don't be too hard on yourself.

I have a stinking cold too and it makes me feel very annoyed as I can't do anything sensible like get on with tidying and cleaning and ironing. DS is desperate to make fairy cakes and I'm just feeling really poo - and very guilty that I haven't got off my arse yet to make them with him. I don't like to whinge on the other threads as I feel like I'm dragging everyone down. So sorry to dump it on you!

Just found this thread and thought putting something down may help, Just had my first baby and she is lovely but very hard work, Luckily i have a very supportive partner , but unluckily have no other supportive family and xmas always hard, My mother has fallen out with me bcos i refuse to let my 3 month baby stay with her, im breast feeding, mother wants me to use bottle!We never had a good relationship and to be honest i dont trust her bcos she was awful to me when i was little and has a lousy temper. My mother in law gave my baby a £5 gift voucher, no they are not poor just not interested , we went for meal where my baby girl wanted to sleep but couldnt get pram to table so cried and father in law said " is she always like this ? , wont tell you what i said !!Just spoken to my friend who has baby same age and has so many nice gifts and people wanting to see her baby that i feel sorry for my gorgous girl , we love her dearly and have friends who have fussed over her , but i feel so sad that we dont have family who enjoy her more.
I do hope others are having a better time x
Happy 2008 New Mummies Daddies and Babbies

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OMG Teri hun you sound so down me lovely. I know how you feel, my mum was mainly interested in my first baby and not my 2nd or 3rd and we fall out lots. My sister has barely seen my 3rd and he is 21 months now! People and family can be such bas**rds at times. I just want to say babe I don't know you and I know that if I did then you would know how chuffed I am for you having a new baby. I am on the boards lots, well not as much as I used to but pop on daily to check so if you ever want to talk you just let me know. Do you have MSN?

Hope 2008 is a better year for you and well done and congratulations on your beautiful baby girl.

Love Lorraine. xxxx

Hi all,

I have just found this board I usually post on the babies born in Nov/Dec 07 but like a lot of others have said I didn't want to bring it down too much so this is a great idea.

I suffered from depression that left me in hospital during my teenage years but thankfully am more able to manage things now but still get bouts of feeling down.

I had been ok after baby was born until the last week of so and have been crying all the time and finding it hard to get motivated to do anything, I didn't leave the house for four days last week so don't think that helped and I guess I am just really tired like most new mums!

My mum is leaving the country on the 16th Jan and I think that it has just hit me how gutted I am about it, I got really upset in front of her the other day and had vowed not to do that as I didn't want to make her feel bad and also at the age of 30 you would have thought I could cope without my mum!!!

Anyway best go and sort out some tea

Hope everyone else is ok

Take care


Sab x

Sab as I said to teri if u need a friend, someone to chat to, I am about.

Best Wishes
Lorraine xx

Hey guys, was abut to pop on and say had a nice christmas after feeling so down before hand, but had a shocker of a new year (Was fab til after midnight), which has eclipsed it all a bit for me!

Basically although it wasn't intended my family started having drunken conversations about the things which are my biggest regrets and sadnesses in life, and although I was sat there in floods of tears they had no idea just how much it was hurtin me and I couldn't tell them. So was left feeling totally awful all over, then spent all night awake with Sonny or cryin, so am shocking today! Just wish it was a hangover!

Anyways need some space and some sleep so will dash - hope 2008 is a good one for everyone!

Take care

Cx

Big Hugs to you babe, xxx

Hi,

Thanks Lorraine thats really kind, am feeling a bit better over the last couple of days think I have got a lot of the crying out of the way now!!

Took the kids out yesterday and I think it helps to get out and about even if it was freezing and we went to a farm???!!

Happy vibes to everyone

Sab x

I am glad that you are feeling abit happier babe, but u know where I am if you need me xxx

Reading the past few posts - the theme seems to be crappy family members! Why do our families do things that hurt us so much all the bloody time? I still get upset (at the same age as you Benazoid!) with certain members of my family who get spoiled rotten, their kids get 5 times what my little one does and I feel really left out especially as they never come to visit. Thing is - our children don't know whats happening and they won't even notice it - its only us who notice. On a good day I realise that I have my own little family to care about and alot of what I am told by aforementioned family member is probably embellished quite considerably - but on a bad day - it cuts me to the quick and I get so upset.

At the moment I'm doing ok - I've been poorly but getting better so feeling a bit more upbeat - but am really behind with everything in the house so busy weekend ahead!!