Mum of two
I'll start by introducing myself. My name is Maddie, I'm 19, and mummy to two beautiful little girls called Ashleigh, who will b 4 in April, and Tegan - 10 months.
I'll be giving you a weekly insight to how it feels to be a young parent of two! Now i know there are other young parents out there with two or more children, but I always love to hear someone else's story so I'd like to share mine and offer any advice I can to other young mums :-)
This week has been rather hectic for me, I've been feeling a bit down since August last year, but I just put it down to lack of energy from having two kids! About 6 weeks ago I started to feel worse and realised I must have post-natal depression. That made me feel even worse still. I felt confused, I had been fine up until Tegan was 5 months old?! But PND can occur up until your child is 1 year old. I sat and had a hard think about how I'd been feeling, and whether anything in my life could have triggered it. That was when it clicked, I'd had Implanon (contraceptive implant) inserted at the end of August. I looked up the side effects and sure enough, depression was listed there, along with a whole lot of other side effects I hadn't even noticed! I booked myself a doctors appointment but due to the amazing amount of snow we've had I haven't been able to get there yet and will update you on this situation as soon as i get it sorted myself.
Doesn't time fly? It seems like only yesterday I brang Tegan home from the hospital and introduced her to her big sister. Ashleigh was so excited and has taken to her really well so far. Although in the last few weeks I've started to notice a bit of jealousy. She doesn't like to share toys or mummy and daddy(!) and since Tegan has started putting anything and everything in her mouth this past week (including other peoples body parts) Ashleigh has started biting back! I'm still yet to work out a solution for this other than the naughty corner and pretending to tell Tegan off so Ashleigh doesn't think Tegan's being favourited, so any suggestions are welcome there!
I'm going to be trying a new bedtime routine with Tegan from Friday onwards as she's started waking in the night, since sleeping through from 5 weeks old. I'll let you know how this goes in my next post.
xoxox
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