Oh dear, my resolution to keep blogging regularly is already falling by the wayside. Sorry! So whats been happening?
The main reason that I haven’t blogged much is that since around about the beginning of December is that I have been living in a plague house. Izzy has picked up one bug after another and this has meant that I have a) not been out all that much and b) not had all that much sleep. Thankfully she seems to be OK at the moment, although she is teething which means that her sleep is still pretty disturbed, albeit a lot better than it has been!
One thing that we have managed to sort out is her day sleep. Izzy now has two regular naps, around 11 am and around 3 pm for anything up to 2 hours at a time IN HER COT! She is a lot better rested and a lot happier. The only problem is that breaking her habit of falling asleep on me means that she doesn’t nap so well when we are out, although this could be because she is so distracted by everything going on around her. Of course all of this is likely to change when she starts nursery in a couple of weeks (more on this in a moment).
I am still attending Weightwatchers each week and have managed to get back to almost where I was before, less half a pound. I am now exactly 14 stone (196 lbs) which is 4 stone (56 lbs) lighter than I weighed at my absolute heaviest, and 4 stone heavier than I would ideally like to be. I will be seeing my doctor shortly about going back on Metformin which should hopefully help.
I mentioned Izzy starting nursery. My maternity leave has now come to an end and on 27th February my annual leave will also be used up meaning that I have to return to work. I am going back on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesday mornings and Izzy will be attending nursery for 3 full days from 8 am to 6pm. Most of me is really really dreading it, but a small part of me is kind of excited, I get to be me again, not ‘Izzy’s Mummy’. Not only that but on Wednesday afternoons I will get to have me time, no work, no Izzy, nothing, I can just relax. I am trying to make the most of my last 2.5 weeks left until Izzy starts nursery, but it is already flying by and there are so many things that I need to fit in during that time! (Izzy is starting nursery the week before I return to work giving her time to settle in before I go back so I hopefully won’t be such a wreck on my first day back!)
So thats it really, I’ll try not to leave it so long between updates next time!
