lol leabie. amazing what sleep deprivation gets you doing hey!!! that's such a great effort with the feeding. you are doing an amazing job and every bit helps and counts! i hope your milk sorts itself out soon and you'll be pump and forumla free soon (guessing that is the goal).

I pumped and bottle fed that milk to DS for 10 days post birth and then all the sudden he "got it". for us tho it wasn't a milk issue it was an attachement issue so heaps different to you. my little one was a real pain in the beehind for the whole time i fed him but i'm so proud we made it to 7 months... not as long as i'd hoped pre-birth but after discovering what it's 'really' like, i am so proud of my effort.

dreamrise - yeah I'm probably 90% that we are having a girl. it's just been so completely different a pregnancy than with DS. As for the aggression thing, I really think it depends on the child and the parent and the work you've put in before hand.
There always something like the big brother/big sister program if it turns out to be something you are concerned about... and there's heaps of sports with great coaches/mentors... Perhaps bridge, cross sort of thing iykwim.

But boys are definitely different to girls, I tried all that non-gender stuff at first... didn't work lol. My boy LOVES wheels and trucks and things that spin. He likes to climb and fall over and go fast in his toy cars... he doesn't talk much yet... my mother's group has nearly all girls and they all sit in a civilised little circle and 'talk' to each other. They were all a few months behind DS in the crawling/walking stakes, but he's behind in the talking game!

that sucks regarding the mat leave payments. you think it'd be the same as normal mat leave paayments!

Funny thing today... my 14 month old has been coming up to me, lifting my top and patting/poking my belly... today it got a big slobbery toddler tonguey! mmmm and i've been saying to him "is our baby in there?"... so today he said "baby" in a sort of managled toddler way! OMG i think they should come out at this age, he's just so beautiful atm, if you ignore the occassional little tanty.

thank the lord! the rain has come! this darwin humidity is nearly killing me!