We joined the NCT back in April or May 2008, when we were expecting Lucy. We didn't really have high expectations of the programme, and knew that we might be fed some, well, inaccurate information regarding pregnancy and childbirth, but felt that the opportunity to meet some people in the same situation as us was unmissable. There were 7 couples in our group, and our babies were born between the 1st of August and the 12th of September, and they are all healthy, happy and strong children. We had 4 girls and 3 boys between us, and some of the children have grown up to be very fond of each other. Lucy and her friend Jessie are very fond of each other, and do ballet together, and talk. all. the. time.
My mummy friends are all close to each other in relative degrees - some I see fairly regularly, some I see rarely. We have now mostly all had second children, and it's all starting again - the sleepless nights, the terrible twos, the going out and having to rush home to breastfeed a screaming child, the general scattiness, the lovely closeness that comes from sharing a deep experience with someone.
Last night, though, we went out for a different reason. A week ago, one of us took her children to the park. She didn't come back. So far there is nothing to say what happened, what caused her to fall and why she didn't get up again. It is totally unbelievable and shocking. Her son is Lucy's age, her daughter is a tiny baby. I am so sad and angry and want to shout at the world and God and everyone about this particularly unfair, random event. We can't bear it, not one bit.
The friends I made in my NCT group were closer than I realised, and I feel that I must cherish them more. If there's one positive thing that's come out of this, that's it.
RIP Sherryn. We will miss you.
My mummy friends are all close to each other in relative degrees - some I see fairly regularly, some I see rarely. We have now mostly all had second children, and it's all starting again - the sleepless nights, the terrible twos, the going out and having to rush home to breastfeed a screaming child, the general scattiness, the lovely closeness that comes from sharing a deep experience with someone.
Last night, though, we went out for a different reason. A week ago, one of us took her children to the park. She didn't come back. So far there is nothing to say what happened, what caused her to fall and why she didn't get up again. It is totally unbelievable and shocking. Her son is Lucy's age, her daughter is a tiny baby. I am so sad and angry and want to shout at the world and God and everyone about this particularly unfair, random event. We can't bear it, not one bit.
The friends I made in my NCT group were closer than I realised, and I feel that I must cherish them more. If there's one positive thing that's come out of this, that's it.
RIP Sherryn. We will miss you.
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