Coping with an ill child

As all parents would know you reach new worrying levels when you become a parent. You constantly worry about your child; if there ok, if that cough is normal, if there too hot/too cold, ect. When you feel that gut feeling worry when your child really does get ill and you know there is something wrong, you just feel heartbroken. You hope and pray that there is going to be nothing wrong with your child as you take them to the doctors. When eventually you do find out there is problems and not everything is right you just feel sick, empty and in pain. You wish you could take away their pain and wish it was you instead. Instead all you can do is remain strong for your child and hold your emotions in to try and make them feel ok. You feel like everything in your world just stops and the only thing you can focus on is making your child better. The worst feeling in the world is not being able to help your child in pain.

Mummy Madness

So we all know what it’s like to feel like a headless chicken running around endlessly after a new-born has arrived and suddenly feeling extremely unorganised. Even though you thought you was prepared and ready for everything at the end of your pregnancy, then all of a sudden, they are here in your arms and the panic comes creeping in.

Motherhood Worry

My article about: Worrying about trying to be a good parent when suffering with a mental illness.

Mental Health is an even tougher struggle when you become a parent. It can mean feeling the loneliest you’ve ever felt before but trying so hard to stay positive to get through every day for your child’s sake. I suffered/suffer with mental health issues and have done for six years now and I say suffered/suffer because I believe it can switch on and off constantly throughout life.

Mental health from my perspective

Mental illness is so dismissed because it is not a visible illness. You can’t notice a person suffering from a mental illness but you can notice someone suffering with a broken leg. The good thing about a broken leg is that you know it will heal and the pain will stop, but mental illness can stay with you for a long time perhaps forever and the pain never stops.

Becoming a mum

I have not been on here for ages and that's because my child was born (good enough excuse.) She is nearly 12 weeks old now and before I no it she will probably be a year! Yes it has been extremely hard work and everything is true what they say for example: get as much sleep as you can in pregnancy. I hate the saying "sleep when the baby sleeps" because it, for me, is impossible. I can not sleep during the day therefore am just constantly tired and just surviving off about 3-4 hours sleep a day, which isn't too bad considering when she was new born it was 1-2 hours. Occasionally I might get more when my mum helps out which is always a bonus, but I'm getting used to it and obviously it's all worth it!