First Mother’s Group

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for Benjamin (and his mum). He had a lovely visit from his Auntie Carole  and cousins Danielle and Jamie (with her new camera) over the school holidays. They brought some yummy bread rolls and orange and poppyseed cake from Dan’s work so we had a veritable feast! Which was good since this lactating mother is always starving!

We had our first mother’s group on Tuesday – the coldest July day in about 8 years. Typical. Mum came over in the morning to babysite and asked if I REALLY wanted to go since it was so cold and I shouldn’t be taking Benjamin out. For my sanity that’s a resounding YES!

Seems like a nice group so far with 5 little girls and 4 little boys including Benjamin. We really only had time to do introductions and have a bit of a chat but I’m looking forward to next week.

Benjamin’s been an aboslute angel – except, of course when he’s the devil child. Ok, not really the devil child but the velcro baby. He did this to me last week on the Monday and the Friday when he just did not want to have any proper sleeps during the day unless I was holding him. So every time I went to put him down he’d wake up and cry. I was at the end of my tether by the evenings but that did mean that he pretty much slept through Tuesday and Wednesday to play catch up. Friday night I was very cranky with it all – and I didn’t work out until Sunday it was because I had PMT! Was not impressed. I was convinced that I wouldn’t get my period for 6 months and was quite enjoying not having had them for a while, so in the loo on Sunday morning there was me in a very surprised tone going, ‘Oh. Oh. Oh.’

‘They’re not noises you normally expect to hear from the toilet?’ said Gary.

‘I’ve got my period and I wasn’t expecting it for another few months!’ I wailed. I’d only just finished my post birth lochia 3 weeks prior!

‘Well you are a fertile woman.’

Lucky I had been to the ob for my roadworthy the previous Tuesday and had got the mini pill – and this time filled the prescription in rather than wave it in Gary’s face as proof of my efforts!

The pharmacist explained the ‘rule of 3′ with the mini-pill: you have to be very strict in taking it at the same time every day and if you go over by 3 hours, you’re unprotected for 3 days. Then she went on to explain to me that if I wanted to get a period, to stop taking the pills for 5 days as that would bring it on.

‘So that means I won’t get a period for the next 4 months if I go straight through?’

‘No. It won’t stop you getting a period if you’re due.’

Then why the hell woulld I want to bring one on???? Is she crazy? I know you girls are with me. She clearly isn’t part of the sisterhood of normal women.

Oh well. Enough about me. Lets talk about you talking about me.

Here are a couple of very cute photos of Benjamin that Gary took over the weekend: Here 

and here .

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