Exercise related in Fitness and Exercise

I took Harrison to Dave’s mum yesterday while I went to exercise class. It was soooo relaxing being able to to exercise in peace without having to have one eye on Harrison and running over to him every five minutes. As much as that sounds like an oxymoron; relaxing exercise? I really enjoyed it. Especially when all the other babies seemed to be in a bad mood yesterday and one of them had a nappy explosion which necessitated an entire outfit change in the middle of the session.

I got back to collect Harrison and apparently he had been asleep for two of the three hours he had been there! Not only that, but she was able to put him down and leave him alone while he slept! Although it was good news that he had been good and easy to look after, it frustrated me because me and Dave have never been able to put him down for more than 30 minutes, and even that is only successful about 20% of the time. Yesterday for his afternoon nap I tried to put him down FOUR TIMES for one nap, but he was wide awake as soon as I moved every single time, so I gave up and held him. Which is what I’m doing now and for about 80% of all of his naps. I don’t know why he goes down for my mam and Dave’s mum but it’s driving me up the wall as I still can’t get anything done even when he’s sleeping.

Oh well, this does mean that she’s having him this Friday while me and Dave go out for lunch, and again next Monday for me. I might have forgotten to tell her that the exercise class has been cancelled next week…but if her and Harrison are happy to spend time together, then who am I to deprive them of this? ;-) they also need to get used to spending time together every week when I go back to work. So I came up with the idea of asking if she would be happy to gradually increase the time I leave him each time. Three hours in Feb, four hours in March etc. Until he’s spending the whole day there. This has the added extra advantage of giving me some time to myself to catch up on a few things.

Dave asked me last night when I’m going back to roller derby. I really want to go back to my old team as I skated with them for three years and they’re MY TEAM. But it would take me 45 minutes each way just to get to the sessions since I moved to Birmingham. So I’ve put out some feelers to a team which is a lot closer. Some of my old teamies have moved to this team anyway so at least there’ll be a few people there that I know. I haven’t skated for over a year, I’m so excited to get back into it. Even if I do it more casually without getting on the actual team, just going for a few training sessions and helping out at games.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the first year of having a baby is just about survival. A little bit more freedom is within sight!

Right, we’re off swimming when he wakes up.