adventures in Momponia

For early February, and Wales, it’s stupidly wonderful weather that we’re having. Wonderful being a totally subjective idea, of course. I’m hating it! I hurt too much to even think about going outside to frolic in the sunshine (what an image), and even if I could – I’m a redhead. I’m pale. I’m freckled. Consider. Sunshine, as a general rule, is not my friend. Ah, well, I wonder if Henry will be the same way? Who knows.

Henry’s learnt to roll, and will happily roll from one end of the room to another. He pivots as his way of changing direction. Quite clever really. Every 5 minutes or so he needs to be put on a different side of the room so he a)doesn’t hit anything and b) doesn’t get bored and upset. He likes to watch television in crawling position, we keep watching him closely and wondering if he will in fact crawl, or skip it altogether and keep on rolling. After all, rolling over musical toys is a fun and easy way to get them to play songs to you, isn’t it? Button pressing’s fun too, and a new skill he’s mastered, but I don’t think it’s quite as fun for him!

So, fun things this week – ummm… for once, I don’t actually think that I’ve got any medical appointments! The shock, the horror. Next week, however, is the big orthopaedic consultant appointment! I’m attempting to gather information from the good people on the babycentre forums , the babyworld forums and the madmums forums about what I should ask about – so I hope that they’ll have some ideas!

I contacted the Pelvic Partnership by email, as I don’t feel very comfortable talking about my personal details by phone – in person or by writing suits me far more. The good news – I got a reply very quickly, within 2 working days. The bad news, “…Sadly I have very little experience with ’surgery’ but my colleague Sarah our chair has much more knowledge and experience. You can call and leave a message on her number… she will call you back as soon as she can.” I guess I won’t be getting any help then.

Philippa, who was the woman who took the time to reply to me, sent a lovely email, it just wasn’t very helpful for me personally.

I’ll keep plugging away, hoping for the best, though. It’s all I seem to do. Slightly depressing but what else is there? Oh yes, enjoying life. Hard to do around a strict, seemingly endless, medication timetable, but possible. I love my boyfriend and our son and I know I’m lucky to have them, it’s just unfortunate that all this pain goes with something that should have been such a natural process!