Sarahs Diary

I thought I would write something for other mums and for even partners of women who are suffering from postnatal depression.

I have recently developed PND (postnatal depression) 8 months after having my son, I feel as though a big cloud has been put over my head and I'm trying to find my way through. At times I feel inadequate and bad about not being able to cope I constantly feel anxious and go into panic mode when D gets upset. Admittedly I snap at my partner for doing things that normally wouldn't bother me but he understands and just ignores my snapping and helps out where he can, it is so important as a partner or family member of someone suffering from PND to be supportive and help out, it is also important for the partner to get support too as it's not easy living with women with PND.

Luckily I have a supportive partner who has helped me realise that I have PND I looked into post natal depression online and I saw that the symptoms I had was the same as described for PND.

Here are some of the symptoms
. Sleep disturbance unrelated to baby’s sleep needs
.Appetite disturbance
.Crying
.Inability to cope
.irritability
.anxiety
.negative obsessive thoughts
.memory difficulties/loss of concentration
.loss of confidence and self esteem

it is very important that you talk to your GP or maternal and child health nurse if you think you may have even a couple of the above symptoms.

I have had difficulties finding new games to play with D my 8 month old son, I looked everywhere online and asked around and someone suggested playing in water but I used my imagination and took it further to make it even more interesting.
So you get a wide shallow bowl around 3-4 inches deep and at least 10 inches wide and fill it nearly to the top with water ( I used tepid water so it wasn't cold for him). I then found a few small objects that float i.e wooden building blocks, bath toys or you could go natural and use blades of grass, flowers etc and put them in the water for bub to get out and splash around with.

I then added something else: vegetable dyes, they're great to add a couple of drops in as bub plays, D tries to grab the colour and has fun mixing it around, you can buy the dyes from grocery stores for around $3 for 4 colours and you can use so many different things with them as you can also mix them with water and flour to make a non toxic paint for bub.

(please supervise baby at all times when playing with water)

So there you go, if your stuck for ideas give this a go. Also if you have any games you would like to share please don't hesitate to share below.

Hi everyone, I'm back! sorry for being away for so long as I have been very busy getting used to motherhood which is a challenge at times but very fun!
Hades is now 7 1/2 months old and time has flown! I can't believe how big he is and he's sitting up now and is almost crawling.
There have been challenges on the way specially when he was in the special care baby unit for a month when he was born I was lost when I came home with no baby in my arms and also not having him in my belly, it was so distressing that I suffered a few panic attacks.
Ah and the day he came home was the best day! I couldn't wait to be sleeping with him next to me, I co-slept with him as I knew we had a lot of bonding time to catch up on but now he's in his cot and doing very well.
Plus on the day he came home Tj proposed to me, so all up it was one of the best days of my life!
So I will be posting regularly now so keep visiting!
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It's week 33 Hades is moving so much now, my belly's like a larvae lamp. Luckily the Pre-Eclampsia symptoms have settled down but i'm still taking it easy just in case.
Really excited for his arrival now and looking forward to getting my body back as it's hard to do pretty much everything now, even breathe and I have heartburn everyday so I'm going through milk like my life depended on it, gave up on the tablets as they were useless and I could really do with a hot bath for my back but after last time of getting stuck in the bath I think i'll just have to wait.

I am getting nervous about the birth, I don't really have a birth plan as things never go to plan anyway but I have opted to have a epidural if I need one and all I can do is just take it as it comes. So only 6 weeks to go which I think will fly by but knowing I'm just going to get more uncomfortable it will probably feel like forever.

As the 12th anniversary of Princess Diana's death approaches there is still the question of doubt that Harry is not Charles son.
Diana and Hewitt separately denied he was Harry's father, saying they hadn't met until two years after Harry was born in 1984. But Andersen names witnesses, such as British public relations guru Max Clifford, who say that Diana and Hewitt met as early as 1981 and that they were lovers by January 1984, nine months before Harry's birth.

"It's not just the physical resemblance — and I can pick out dozens of photos that show this — it's the peculiar expressions, the walk, the mannerisms" the two share, Andersen says.

My opinion is with Andersen, I would be very shocked if Harry is in fact Charles' son.

What are your views?