One thing I have learnt about being a parent is whatever you do you will feel guilty.Guilty about weaning too early or too late. Guilty about not being able to get your child to sleep through the night. Guilty about letting them sleep in your bed. Guilty about taking your child along to a restaurant and making the other guests hear him screaming. Guilty about not being able to breastfeed. Guilty about breastfeeding for too long, guilty about nursing him to sleep and the list goes on and on. The funny thing is that us people don’t tend to tell each other things like “oh you shouldn’t be eating that” or “go home you shouldn’t be out at this hour, these things seems to be reserved for your mother to tell you. But when you have a child it seems like people you just met feel they have a right to tell you off for doing things wrong.
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Sleep deprived and Guilt
15th November 2009 by Hellie
More piggy flu and rest
2nd November 2009 by Hellie
Went to see the Neuro last week. It was all good, he was very pleased to see that I am doing so well. I have now gone two years without a relapse! He said that I should wait with going on any drugs for now, but go for it if I get worse. He said whatever I am doing, I should keep on doing it. I told him I had big fears about fatigue before I had Tycho, but even though I sleep far less than I used to, I am less fatigued than before him. I put this down to laying down with him when he naps and when he goes to sleep. Even if I don’t sleep I get a rest. A rest that you don’t get at work. Well saying that, in my old office I used to go and lay down on a sofa or in a rest room if it got really bad. I actually think most offices could do with a rest room, or a simple sofa to have a rest on in your lunch break. Not only for people with MS. A friend of mine had to take naps during breaks at work during her pregnancy to get through the days.
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Fathers-to-be role during the birth
26th October 2009 by Hellie
Last week BBC morning news had some doctor on their program saying that some fathers probably did more harm than good coming along for the birth of their babies. The mothers become more stressed and the chance for a C-section increases. Just hearing him say that made me feel slightly panicky. Let me share with you the worst moment for me during the whole birth.
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6 months
23rd October 2009 by Hellie
On the 22nd Tycho turned 6 months! I can’t believe how fast times moves. We are both doing ok, well better than ok, I love being a mother and he is such a little bundle of fun. Sure it is hard work when he wont sleep at night or when he cries a lot due to the pain of teething. But it is all worth it!
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Flu Jab
22nd October 2009 by Hellie
So I went for my flu jab last Saturday. I was impressed by the speedyness of it all, there were lots of people there still I was out and in there in less than 5 minutes. I don’t know if it was because of the speed of it or that it was a doctor and not a nurse, but I got a giant bruise from the shot, both around the injection site and all around it almost like someone punched me hard on the arm.
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Baby, MS and Me
Hellie is a woman with MS who had her first child in April 2008. Here she blogs about what it is like living with MS. All views and opinions expressed are her own and not those of the MS Trust.