Grub, I feel so bad for laughing at your camping trip story, but you wrote it so well it's hard not to laugh! And I think that was one of those times where if you don't laugh, you cry. I'm just not brave enough to do the camping thing with Sam. When he was small my arthritis was too ferocious to contemplate it, and now that the arthritis has settled a bit he's too mobile and into everything but doesn't quite have the understanding to keep himself safe. We have been away, though - staying at my parents' place and he copes ok away from home if we can keep enough of the usual home routines going.

Green, I hope your little man is more comfortable today. Wind can be so hard on them at times! We used infacol with Sam - I hated the fact that I had to give him something, but he was just so uncomfortable without it, and the puking was always worse if we left it out of his bottles. The thing with infacol is that it allows all the gas bubbles to come together and form one big bubble which is easier to get up - the more he got up as burps, the less gas there was to give him trouble at the other end. I hope the wind drops are helping - which ones do you use?

Neptune, I hope you feel more yourself soon. I think you are amazingly brave leaving Adam over night - we still have not done this with Sam. We still have not left Sam with someone for a few hours while we go to have dinner or see a movie or something like that. Doesn't help that there's no family close who could do it, either. But we manage ok. We didn't have much of a social life before Sam to notice that we are missing out on anything, anyway.

Marcellus, I have done similar things in the shops before - it's an easy mistake to make. I hope DH is feeling well again soon - and I have definitely seen gluten-free wraps, so I know you weren't hallucinating that part of things!

Sam is decidedly feral today, and I've got a big attack of the grumps - all because of church and I just don't know how to fix the problem! Sam still has two day sleeps most days, but is at the age where he generally won't go to sleep when we aren't at home. Church is right in the middle of when he usually sleeps - so it's a huge issue at times. Also, he likes to get down and run around, and doesn't understand that there's times to be quiet and still and that we have to stay in the chairs or his pram. I generally have to take him into the creche - but because Fridays are his daycare day he's still clingy with my on Sundays so I can't leave him in there and go out to church. There's an audio and video feed into the creche, but the quality is crappy and you really can't hear much of anything over the noise of little boys playing. It's getting to be a big issue for me as it's always me that misses church - DH is the sound guy and needs to be on the desk so can't take care of Sam. I just don't know what to do! Sam slept for about an hour after church this morning and refused to have another sleep despite being tired. I was feeling ill and sleeping/resting so DH took him back to church to let me have a break. Evening services aren't as bad (as I can keep Sam quiet in his pram by feeding him dinner!) but I don't often get to go as Sam usually sleeps until just after the service has started or, as I suspect will happen today, is just too tired to cope with staying out!

I don't know that anyone can fix the problem, but I just needed to have a massive grumble and get it off my chest!

BW