Hi everyone, I hope you're all well.
re the daytime sleeps, I usually follow a similar routine during day and night except before his big sleep at night I give him a bath, a feed and read to him. Last night I skipped the bath because I had bathed him in the morning and he still smelled nice and fresh but after half an hour of whinging I gave him a bath and read to him again and he crashed out straight away so I geuss that following the routine helps him know what is happening. Its funny how fast they learn. I used to sleep him in the lounge through the day so that he could learn the differance between day and night but now I'm not so strict about that. Sometimes he sleeps in the lounge and sometimes the bedroom. I have usually used the feed, play, sleep routine although in the early days I was a bit more flexible about it and if he was restless I would feed him to sleep.
Michelle, congrats to Jay on being such a good boy for his first day at kindy and hooray for Lani on her weight gain. She certainy is long and lean. I hope she starts being kinder to her mum and lets you get some more sleep.
Iris, bugger about your car, what a cow!! Sorry to hear that you've had to skip mothers group maybe you could try and get into contact with a few other mums in your position through the hospital and start your own mothers group. Goodluck with the solids. I think that the reason that they recommend the rice cereal is the for the first week or two you can make it really sloppy so it is easier for the to cope with and you can mix it with formula or breast milk so it tastes familiar. Also it is iron fortified and iron deficiency is an issue for a small number of breast fed babies. I hope you manage to catch that first roll on the camcorder.
Michelle, I hope Jemma's fingers aren't still bothering her. You both must have had a big fright.
Snowy, ouch at having the wisdom teeth out. Did you puff up. After I had mine out I looked like one of those old style dolls with the really fat cheeks. The girl who said that Yasin sounds like a pig has a daughter who is really fat (the echn said she is overweight) and always wears pink so I think she resembles a pig more than Yasin (not that I'd say so to her mother :-$).
Bon, how annoying that the women in your mothers group were so lacking in empathy. I think that toddlers are so cute when they try and kiss babies and its not like you weren't there to supervise him.
I took Yasin to a playgroup yesterday, one of my friends didn't want to go alone so I went with her. He fell asleep half way through but until then he really enjoyed watching the other babies so I think that we'll keep going.
Jessica, I'm glad to hear that you're healing ok and your six week checkup went well.
Tegan, what a shame you're not enjoying the weather. I don't mind the tropical thing myself just so long as a storm comes along and cools everything down, just so long as its not too big and crazy, yesterday's storm was a bit scary.