Sometimes I’d imagine a kind and maternal woman coming to my door and offering to take my baby to look after. At times, I felt like one of those cartoon thermometers that reaches boiling point and explodes. His screams ran through my body and triggered my anxiety like never before. ![]() The louder he screamed, the more I wanted to run. This tiny little person lay on my bed screaming at the top of his lungs, and he felt like a stranger to me. Man left with blisters 'the size of golf balls' after touching giant hogweed I felt like a bomb had gone off in my home and I was standing in shock surveying the wreckage. That first night can only be described as traumatic. I looked into his big blue eyes and felt overwhelmed with fear.Īfter being cut open seven layers, I was sent home from hospital soon after with paracetamol and a pat on the back. The moment he was pulled from my tummy, I expected to feel that instant rush of love. A long labour and an emergency c-section didn’t help matters. I never thought one of my most profound moments in motherhood would come courtesy of a talking cartoon dog I took any delay as a sign I was a bad parent. I’d stressed over every milestone with my son. This was one of the most relatable things I’d seen since becoming a mum. ![]() ![]() I could feel tears starting to prick my eyes. And when Judo took her first steps in baby class, Chilli felt like a failure and shut herself off from her other mum friends. Most babies do so between 10-18 months but for some reason he had no interest in walking and I was starting to panic that he never would.Ĭhilli continued to try her hardest to get Bluey to walk but her efforts proved futile. My son was over 18-months old and he’d not taken his first steps. This episode felt like a play by play of my life. I could feel the hairs on the back of my neck start to stand on end.
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