Busy back soon

My bloglines currently has 200-odd unread posts and I'm leaving for the UK tonight for 3 weeks. Computer access is likely to be sporadic at best so reading, commenting and posting may not happen until I come back. I may also have to do the evil - mark all as read option and start again on bloglines so I'm expecting you all too let me know if there is any big news before I'm up to speed sometime after the 7th january (that especially means you Niobe).

See you on the flip side where there is bound to be posts about in-laws, families, Christmas, New Year and going back to work.

arrgghh!

So S has been on leave for a week so far of his 3 months paternity leave, with a month overlapping with mine. Great huh? Well it should be, the idea is that baby T gets used to S (and S gets used to taking care of T) before I go back to work next month.

Only so far he has laid in bed nearly every morning while I get up (as usual) to get T up and feed him (I have mentioned this). He has once or twice taken him for a walk to try and get him to sleep and once or twice fed him but got bored and I've had to take over. Now I love taking care of baby T but he really needs to get used to his father being in charge so it's not a big shock (to either of them) when I'm not here all day. Of course we're off to the UK next week for an extended break where I'm sure there will be lots of willing volunteers to help but that's not really the point.

Do I really have to nag my husband to get him to step up and do this?

He's fine

My heart stopped for a few seconds there though.

I'll not do that again (turn around when he's on the bed).

OMFG!

Baby T rolled off the bed onto our TILED floor. FUCK FUCKITY FUCK!

He seems ok, but FUCK!

Round up of the year

I saw this on one of the science blogs I read and though it could be fun.

Basically you post the first sentence of the first post for each month along with a link. So here we go:

January
Wow! 2008 already.

February
Wow it's been over a week since I last posted.

March
In the UK, Sunday was mother's day, it is a day linked to the date of Easter and was traditionally the day when people visited their mother church.

April
As of yesterday, I'm on maternity leave, to be honest it's a bit weird.

May
Thanks for all the best wishes.

June
I'm working on the birth story (partly because I want to write about it before I completely forget the details).

July
This little guy was sleeping in a pile of moss by my shed this morning, how cool is that?

August
In January 2006 we heard that my boss in Glasgow was moving to another University but he still intended to offer me a 1 year contract at the new Uni.

September
I have a bunch of unfinished posts that I keep thinking I'll get around to completing and post but it's not happening - maybe next week.

October
We had a fantastic weekend away.

November
For those of you who haven't seen the pics on facebook.

December
Because all I talk about these days is sleep.

The was fun and it made me read back over the year.

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So I guess that (at least partly) explains why I've been grumpy and tearful for the last couple of days.

It's the first one since baby T was born. It does totally open up the what now? - how long do we wait before trying again - can of worms.

Sleepy baby and selfishness

Because all I talk about these days is sleep.

The over nights are going really well - apart from Friday we've only had one feed (and wake up) a night between 8ish and 8ish for the last week. Daytime naps seem to be going towards one long nap rather than two but I guess this could change again.

As for the selfishness it's about the Christmas trip, I'm really looking forward to spending time with my family but part of me is sad that 3 of the last four weeks before I go back to work and have to leave baby T will be spent sharing him with other people. Selfish, right? Oh and of course I feel this more about the sharing him with the in-laws week because I'm horrible.

As for going back to work - part of me is really looking forward to getting my brain working again and spending more time with adults and part of me is dreading it. It was hard enough leaving baby T to sleep in him own room so I can't hear him breathing at night. How will I cope with not seeing him all day and maybe leaving before he's even awake in the morning?