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Christmas Tensions

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    What a wonderful update to hear!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭fineso.mom


    That's lovely to hear. So what did you do that Christmas in the end?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,947 ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    Ah that's lovely and congrats on the babies!

    Glad your mum has came around -new grandkids do have a way of throwing old norms out the door to make way for new improved ones.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,098 ✭✭✭OU812


    This. Everyone wants to know this.

    It's like a hallmark Xmas movie.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭unknowngirl!!


    Awh sorry! I've just seen the questions on what happened.

    That Christmas I came home mid-December and my OH followed the 23rd of December and stayed for four or five days before going back to France for work. When I got back in December I was 10 weeks pregnant. I found out the day before I flew home. By this time, one of my mother's very close friends told her to cop on and realise that if she started to reject my OH that I'd end up exlcuding her etc. etc. For some reason this resonated with my mother and she quickly came around to having my OH with us for some of Christmas. I think having someone on the outside call her out gave her a new level of insight.

    She softened majorly before we got home and there were no issues. I told her I was pregnant the night I got home and she was shocked but very excited. For context, I had been receiving treatment for cervical issues and was told I would probably not be able to have children and was advised to have a hysterectomy. Went back to France, came home in July just before the baby was due and ended up going in early with pre-eclampsia. Baby was born early and went to PICU as we initially thought baby was sleepy due to being pre-mature. 48hrs later we were rushed to Crumlin and within a few days he was diagnosed with a rare illness and is chronically ill. Nothing like a sick child to bond a family...

    Baby was so unwell we decided to move back full time to Ireland to have the support of my family. Got pregnant again and now have two scuts, married my OH, and my mother is like another parent to my children.

    My initial posts were full of so much worry and sadness. I can't believe how much everything has changed and how everything worked out :)



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