Am I a single mum?

When Teddy was first born, his dad stepped up and was amazing. We spent 5 days in the hospital and his dad was there for 3 of the 5 days. He would get up during the night to take care of him so I could sleep and helped out where he could. When we went home, he stayed for the first 2 days, but went home over the weekend to see his family before coming back up on Christmas Eve to spend Christmas with us. He stayed over Christmas Day, but left as one of his friends had been in a serious car accident in the early hours of the morning- yes it was a drink driving accident but I won't go into detail about it, and was in hospital. He then had work for the rest of the week but came back up for New Years.

It was a big shock to the system as he hadn't really been around during my pregnancy and then once Teddy had arrived, he was around all the time. This was really hard and in February I ended the relationship. I was struggling with a new baby and essentially a stranger I didn't know, as we had only known each other for 3 months before I fell pregnant. He still saw Teddy every week, and to begin with I wasn't happy about spending one day a week with him but he wanted to be in Teddy's life and I wasn't going to stop him.

Over the last couple months however, things have been getting a lot better. I now look forward to spending the day as a family, and trust him to look after Teddy if I needed him too. I guess you could say we are back in a relationship, there is just no label on it and we are taking things slow which is working well for us. We are going to the Baby & Toddler show together, which he wasn't 100% about going too, but after I said it was okay and I would go by myself, he said we would go together as he wants to spend the day with Teddy and me. I'm a lot happier now and I'm glad things between us have worked themselves out.