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<blockquote data-quote="DCUKMod" data-source="post: 1894053" data-attributes="member: 345386"><p>Catherine - I'm sorry your still struggling to juggle everything you see before you. All of these things take time.</p><p></p><p>Please don't make too many judgements from your first day back after maternity leave. That's bound to have been a totally alien environment - a total step change from home to work, never mind your disruption to routine with your children. Give it a few weeks to form new routines. Once they are established things should become a bit easier.</p><p></p><p>Keep taking your insulin - even if you can only manage a sort of safety net routine for now. Reminders on your phone might help establish that sort of routine for say your basal at least, but it depends how you react to reminders. Some folks find they encourage them to comply, and others find them to be something to rebel against. Only you'll know that, but the great thing about repeating reminders on a phone is you can always snooze it for 10 minutes if your deep in baby bath or whatever.</p><p></p><p>Please try to recognise the incremental steps you are taking and what you are achieving in doing as you do. Your absolute priority seems to be the welfare and wellbeing of your children, and that is laudable, however, in order to ensure those things, you have to be looking after yourself too. Some routines of your own are at least as important as routines for your children. Getting your children into wonderful routines only goes so far if you aren't well enough to follow the routines through with them.</p><p></p><p>One day at a time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DCUKMod, post: 1894053, member: 345386"] Catherine - I'm sorry your still struggling to juggle everything you see before you. All of these things take time. Please don't make too many judgements from your first day back after maternity leave. That's bound to have been a totally alien environment - a total step change from home to work, never mind your disruption to routine with your children. Give it a few weeks to form new routines. Once they are established things should become a bit easier. Keep taking your insulin - even if you can only manage a sort of safety net routine for now. Reminders on your phone might help establish that sort of routine for say your basal at least, but it depends how you react to reminders. Some folks find they encourage them to comply, and others find them to be something to rebel against. Only you'll know that, but the great thing about repeating reminders on a phone is you can always snooze it for 10 minutes if your deep in baby bath or whatever. Please try to recognise the incremental steps you are taking and what you are achieving in doing as you do. Your absolute priority seems to be the welfare and wellbeing of your children, and that is laudable, however, in order to ensure those things, you have to be looking after yourself too. Some routines of your own are at least as important as routines for your children. Getting your children into wonderful routines only goes so far if you aren't well enough to follow the routines through with them. One day at a time. [/QUOTE]
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