I'm a great aunt again.....

[Karen]

Congratulations! Now to set about being a great auntie, as wll as a Great Aunt! No baby can have too many people who love her!

[AbbyMom]

I think i will invite her down for a day of pampering and helping with bubs,she seems to be coping extremely well considering and is a good mother,and very relaxed, but it is a tough time with a newborn, all alone.

Carole, I don't have kids, but I think raising a newborn all alone sounds so hard and so sad. Every new mother needs a support system. I'm sure anything you can do will help her out.

[carole]

Well i talked to her yesterday via phone, she said her girlfriend who has a young baby is showing her the ropes and is there most of the time, i made it clear to her i was here for her 100 percent, but i also am not a pushy person and won't interfere, she knows she can call on me anytime and so far she has not taken me up on my offer, but that is ok, as long as she is coping, she had a bad day the other day she said, prob the baby blues, I am so close to her and I have the time to help her, so i do hope she turns to me eventually, I have not seen much of her over the years, so I guess she does not know me that well, and is more comfortable with her friend, which i completely understand,but at least she knows she is not alone.

She is a very loving girl who just took a wrong turning really, she was alway's a little mischievious child with heaps of energy,and i feel had she had the right parental control and love ,she might never have taken this turn, oh well too late now, her parents are divorced and that is when it all turned to custard really, dad lives in a beach settlement about 2 hrs away and has been over to see her, but mum lives nearby and as far as i know does not bother with her much, did not even see the baby till two days afterwards and is scared to hold her, what utter rubbish, very very selfish woman,makes my blood boil, what i would do to give her a good kick up the rear and a telling off,be a waste of my breath though.

I think i will drop some nappies off to her in the weekend, she is on a very tight budget as well, welfare really, it will all help and a good excuse to check on her and Aaleyah, dying to see her again and take those pictures too.