I actually don’t advocate routines as I think they can really stress people out. I was all alone during the week with my new baby as my hubby worked away and my parents live far away and friends where all busy so I ended up with post natal depression and I can honestly say I was so strict with his routine was too much. He was awake and dressed and downstairs by 9 with his play gym etc and I was sitting on the sofa with him on my chest “bonding” watching downtown abbey but most of the time I was I showered the house was a mess and I used to only eat once. I was so depressed I could barely walk around unless was baby related. I couldn’t bond with him because I couldn’t let the nanny in me go so I looked after him perreo but as his nanny. Were very very dark times. And I realised the day he was laughing at my other half and smiling at him that I am actually never looking at him and just over him and my heart broke. Only when he turned one I actually started feeling like a mum and engage with him like that. Now we have an amazing relationship but the guilt of those first months will never leave me. Post natal depression is not something to joke with but just you wait Hinch will “get” PnD soon or she will use that dreadful illness as another way to promote herself and make herself some more money
I also have a feeling she will play the PND card at some point when it suits her. I currently have my little one asleep on my chest after a traumatic birth and not bonding properly due to PND and PTSD. Such a serious illness and something that needs to be mentioned more often. I didn't feel like I loved my baby to begin with and the guilt made it a thousand times worse seeing people going on about how much they love their babies and how easy they are finding it and how they sleep through the night etc whilst I was having the worst time and feeling alone.