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The First Week
Mar. 4th, 2007 08:23 pmMy first week back is looming. Loom, loom, loom, that's all it ever does. Rob has bought a double buggy - this was his last shopping chance before we came back and he didn't see the offer of a free one! - and I have an appointment with the obstetric dept psychologist on Tuesday.
So this is me asking for help. I'd like help with child-amusing morning and/or afternoon Monday 12th to Friday 16th; my sister arrives on Friday, I believe, and we need to have the spare room habitable for her but if that's done she can help a bit on Sat/Sun. Oh, and we have the Homestart visitor on Thursday if we call and ask her to come. I think the biggest issue is childcare for the duration of my appointment with the psychologist; that's at 1:30 pm at the hospital. I think I can probably take Emer with me if necessary; I don't know how long I can leave her otherwise but it might be a good time to experiment with feeding her expressed milk. Assuming I can gather the oomph to express some.
I won't be going anywhere that week; Linnea is invited to two birthady parties and Rob will bring her to those, but I won't be going because I need to conserve my energy. If Mum wasn't so ill I'd probably be staying here another week or two but she's really not well enough and getting tireder all the time. The good news is that I can do all the childcare, really, if I sit Linnea in front of a screen for several hours a day; the bad news is that I can't do that and still have the energy to wash and dress and feed myself.
After the first week back I should be able to tell how much I can realistically do - but I can only do about half of what I think I can, it appears, without being wiped out totally the next day. I still need 12-14 hours sleep in every 24.
I spent a lot of today shaking from hunger and tiredness, in spite of eating and just sitting around for as much of it as I could.
So this is me asking for help. I'd like help with child-amusing morning and/or afternoon Monday 12th to Friday 16th; my sister arrives on Friday, I believe, and we need to have the spare room habitable for her but if that's done she can help a bit on Sat/Sun. Oh, and we have the Homestart visitor on Thursday if we call and ask her to come. I think the biggest issue is childcare for the duration of my appointment with the psychologist; that's at 1:30 pm at the hospital. I think I can probably take Emer with me if necessary; I don't know how long I can leave her otherwise but it might be a good time to experiment with feeding her expressed milk. Assuming I can gather the oomph to express some.
I won't be going anywhere that week; Linnea is invited to two birthady parties and Rob will bring her to those, but I won't be going because I need to conserve my energy. If Mum wasn't so ill I'd probably be staying here another week or two but she's really not well enough and getting tireder all the time. The good news is that I can do all the childcare, really, if I sit Linnea in front of a screen for several hours a day; the bad news is that I can't do that and still have the energy to wash and dress and feed myself.
After the first week back I should be able to tell how much I can realistically do - but I can only do about half of what I think I can, it appears, without being wiped out totally the next day. I still need 12-14 hours sleep in every 24.
I spent a lot of today shaking from hunger and tiredness, in spite of eating and just sitting around for as much of it as I could.