venuscat

Maybe baby wants to be born on the 27th.....it's a pretty good date. s

Thinking of you and your wife dearest Pete. s

DJ1

Happy Birthday hope you both have awesome day x

melski

Thank you for the lovely birthday wishes!
Happy Friday everyone!

Dee74

Hope your day was great Melski
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Rose335

Hope everyone is doing fine. Hope also that the baby decides to join you this weekend, Pete.

I've now passed the 5 week mark, just, so I'm feeling chipper. It hasn't even really felt like a long 5 weeks which begs, for me, the question as to why I waited so long to embrace a sober life. Since I've no answer to that I've decided not to spend time speculating on it.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Dee74

Congratultions Rose

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dizzybee

Hey everyone! Haven't posted in a while but I'm still here. Day 33, in fact. Glad I came here just now because I found myself having thoughts of wanting to drink...really what I want is to escape. Ugh. I know I will eventually flip my thinking and get back to all the gratitude and accomplishment I've been feeling so far, just where I am right now.

Lots of congratulations due: Happy birthdays, Happy milestones! Can't blame baby for hanging in there but hoping for that happy birth soon.

My sleep has actually gotten a bit worse. Maybe it's stress? I'm also feeling irritated with my husband lately so that's probably contributing. Trying not to invest too much time or thought into what I've been escaping in our relationship by drinking. It's still too early. But I'm not feeling like my joyous, chipper self.

I am staying busy each day and will continue plowing through chores, etc. to be sure I stay distracted. Today is definitely one of those each moment at a time days. Oh well.

Thankful for the support here and keep it strong, June class.

venuscat

It's a whole catch 22 for me when I have something on my mind, and I don't sleep well, and then I am not very chipper either. s

Maybe some of your chores today will take you outside, and the sun and lovely weather will refresh you.

May I ask love.....do you give yourself two or three hours space between food and bed? I know it makes a huge difference to my sleep quality.

Hoping today is a good day for you....and 33 days is awesome!!! xx

So is 5 weeks dear Rose. And all of you.....so well done. s

Rose335

dizzybee - lovely to see you posting, I was wondering about you only yesterday. Day 33 is just brilliant and definitely not to be thrown away. I'm sympathetic re sleep. It seems to elude me quite a lot at the moment but that's small cheese next to the reality of the deadly bouts of alcohol-induced sleep I used to have, always followed by the truly awful early morning anxiety/guilt-filled wake up! Don't allow yourself to go there. You've come too far to go back.

Venus - how is your elbow? Really hope it's on the mend and you are not I. Too mich pain.

venuscat

It is on the mend love....this morning I was almost doing cartwheels.....not so much now, but perhaps again tomorrow.

Hope you are still having a lovely time. s

Abraham

Hey june class. Just checking in. Staying drink free. Will be 7 weeks tomorrow. I've been spending time on the poodle forum. We are thinking about getting a poodle pup. Anyone with poodle input feel free to dicuss. I mentioned to my wife how tomorrow will be weeks and she called me a freak of nature. Probably cuz I just quit spur of the moment(my first attempt). I just decided to one sat morning with out even anticipating it at all. AND it stuck so far with no other plan or meetings, counseling, etc... Fact is thought is that I have been telling myself for over 10 years now (on a daily basis) that I need to quit. Not sure what got into me that saturday morning 7 weeks ago but I am not complaining. I do tend to run outside the norm on opinion and other things. I guess that just proves that point. Enjoy the weekend June.

Newbeginning421

On day 78 now have not really posted much been so busy trying to push my body and mind to the limits a stress test per say. Did not have the urge to drink but did get heavy depression and felt suicidal. Funny thing is been reading up on eastern philosophy, Suicide is a temporary solution to a permanent problem! Feeling better after some sleep as I usually do but was a good test I feel to prepare myself for the real world. Sounds depressing but part of DBT and Buddhist philosophy is accepting there is no such thing as the permanent and avoiding attachments. The thought that everyone I know and care about will in time die and holding on to attachments is futile. I guess this line of thinking has always led me back to drinking and having a rough time accepting this but sure most people in life do. Will take time to overcome not going to happen overnight. Hope everyone is doing well and from reading many of the post it seems this class is still going strong!

Dee74

hi to all

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Petecrab

Evening all. Lily Rose was born at 12.10 am after only 4 minutes labour!

Dee74

Congratulations again to you and your wife Pete

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Abraham

DJ1

Congrats Pete & to Mrs awesome news I love the name Lily Rose such an angelic name! again congrats & hopefully hospital not to warm !

Red78

Firstly congratulations on your wee baby girl, beautiful name.
Secondly, I don't have kids but my sisters 1st, Lilly Renee, took 56 hours to come out, your wife is very lucky to have such a quick delivery.

melski

Congrats Pete! Wonderful news!

Rose335

Pete - that is fabulous news and what a lovely name! Huge congratulations to you all. And a medal to her mum for her four minute race. Bet the staff at the hospital, assuming you got there, were surprised.

NB, thanks for that thought provoking post. Abraham, long may you continue to be a freak of nature! Congratulations to you both on your seventy eight days and seven weeks respectively. Very inspiring.