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Night Shift

MazaritaSenior Contributor23 Sept 2015, 4:13 am AEST

Night Shift

Since I am awake at 4am I thought I'd start this thread for those of us who have trouble sleeping and might find it helpful to have a place to go to chat. Whatever gets you through the night is alright.

To get the ball rolling, I'll just say that I enjoyed being part of the Topic Tuesday discussion tonight. I wish it was possible for these events to be weekly rather than monthly. Either way, thanks SANE and all the people I've met on here over recent months.

Edited June 2016 and February 2017: Night Shift is now open 24 hours a day. To join in, just click through to the last page of the thread at the top right of this post to get to the latest message.

Edited April 2017 and June 2017: For the sake of better communications between members here, I am adding that this thread is meant to be a caring, kind and gentle place of sharing. Humour is welcome, as long as its not unkindly directed towards other members. Hope your time in this chat thread is rewarding.

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utopiaSenior Contributor19 Sept 2016, 2:10 am AEST

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@Former-Member. That does sound like it would make you teact badly. Did they offer any follow up counseling in the maternity ward? You would think they should ' as it would be a shock for many mothers and father's.
I forget - how old is your beautiful girl?

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Unknown userMember19 Sept 2016, 2:10 am AEST

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All hospitals must be different. I've heard that here they don't do r--- c----, too expensive, they rather pull the tooth out. But this was years ago, might have changed. @utopia. Annoying that you can't get it fixed

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TABSenior Contributor19 Sept 2016, 2:11 am AEST

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Yes, you may @Former-Member and why not

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utopiaSenior Contributor19 Sept 2016, 2:13 am AEST

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Sorry @TAB. Just realised what I'm writing and not kind of me to write this today - with you going tomorrow to the dentist. Sorry about that

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utopiaSenior Contributor19 Sept 2016, 2:15 am AEST

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Your tablets kicking in yet @Former-Member? Mine aren't.

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TABSenior Contributor19 Sept 2016, 2:16 am AEST

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ahh ..'chatting' is a distraction, even if it is about dental and already a bit worried about how ($,complications) its going to go, so cant be any worse, but yeah next subject maybe lol @utopia

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Unknown userMember19 Sept 2016, 2:18 am AEST

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She's 16 @utopia @TAB
I saw a social worker once, but no help when home. Except nurse once ir twice. They sent male nurse. I asked for female, because of hmmm! Can't mention on here. The male insisted that he came and if I didn't like that, go without. So I did. He was a creeper.

I tried to phone heaps of places for help. Couldn't find anyone. Just really bad luck.
Cried every day for years; I was so exhausted and distraught. Gosh! I am better than I was.
I waited so long to have a baby and was too exhausted to enjoy it.
Sorry for the sad news.

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TABSenior Contributor19 Sept 2016, 2:20 am AEST

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prob have to jump in bed for it to work unless you are re my take on it in other post lol @utopia how much sleep do you need lol , I wish could sleep for days sometimes tho @Former-Member

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TABSenior Contributor19 Sept 2016, 2:25 am AEST

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My mum had Dr Spock book lol well ok they used to have Mothers and Babies thingo well that was in 60s lol @Former-Member @utopia

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utopiaSenior Contributor19 Sept 2016, 2:27 am AEST

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@Former-Member. I think we all have regrets when it comes to our babies. I really wish I could have tried harder with the breastfeeding. He was on the bottle after a month. I wish I didn't get depression when he was 2 & 1/2 years old and I became a single mum. But the good thing is, I still have great happy funny memories of those early years and every year. My boys a funny bloke. Has a wicked sense of humour and as he gets older (14 now), I get to appreciate his character more and more. As I'm sure you do with your daughter.

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