Diary of a Bad Mother

Now panicking and having thought I wouldn’t need to read a book because hey I’m a pro I’ve done all this before… am now devouring the books whenever Oscar is quiet for a second. And then of course I read it too fast so take nothing in and the panic sets in again! Can’t remember how you breast feed, how to swaddle…how to pick the tiny thing up…etc. If you think about it logically (which I can’t do often), most of the babies that are born in this world are born with no hospital, no midwife, no drugs, no help etc – so just chill out woman!

Another tiresome thing is that I love, and I mean LOVE, my food, it is one of my real pleasures in life. I just love breakfast time, I look forward to lunch and can hardly wait til dinner. Boringly there is now no room in my belly for food, only for the fricking baby. Forgot this from last time too!

So onto the positives then – can’t believe my luck that Oscar is such a sleeper, he still sleeps at 9 in the morning for an hour, and for at least 2 hours at lunch time. Sometimes he has 3 hours. And still he is knackered and desperate for bed at 7pm and I never see him before about 7.30 in the morning. So am considering myself v lucky – I go back to bed at 9 for an hour! And at lunchtime! That totally keeps me sane, long may it continue.

Other high points - at bathtime John sings some rubbish “rubadubdub who do you think they were” song to the boy when rubbing lotion into him, and asks him at the end, “who were they?”, to which Oscar replies “t**t”. Comedy! God knows what he is trying to say but long may it continue that he calls his father a t**t! We’ve been telling him that there is a new baby on the way and it’s in my tummy, so he now points at my tummy and says “baby”. High point of the day - in the bath tonight, he pointed at John’s belly and said “baby”…nothing like your one year old telling you you need to diet!

Put the new buggy together today (a Phil and Teds E3 for those of you interested…) and luckily it was pretty straightforward, thought I’d need a degree in engineering to put it together. It will take the baby lying down in it and Oscar sitting in it, and when the baby is a few months old it becomes a double sitter. Although they are not side by side but sort of on top of each other. Side by siders mean no shopping or bus action and that’s no good for us at all.

Since it’s all now imminent I wish I was a man today…they get it easy. Weird to think that very soon we will be a family of 4. Shhiiiit!

Posted by Bad Mother on September 13, 2007 at 17:11PM

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