Jodie - I forgot to mention that Liam's discovered his boy-bits too! Every time we get the nappy off he's grabbing at them! He's even had scratch marks!
General update: We're all doing better. DH is mostly over his 'flu and Liam's got a cough and has had a few days where he's been a bit warm, but nothing major. I've gotten through my first week of work unscathed and I even managed to sleep through the night last night! DH fed Liam at 11pm and he didn't wake up until about 6.45 am. By then I was hanging out a load of nappies!
We're starting to get into a routine in the mornings too. I shower at night so all I have to do to get ready for work is have some breakfast, pack a lunchbox & my water, brush my teeth & get dressed. Usually I let DH sleep in until 8 am and hand Liam over then. That gives me time to do those things (sometimes I've already packed my lunchbox & had breakfast by that time) and get to work by 8.30 am. Glad I'm not a hair & make-up person!! We've also started a routine for leaving - when either DH or I leave the house to go somewhere (like work), we do a special wave (fingers to palm, then open again) and blow kisses saying 'bye-bye'. Hopefully this will get him prepared for our absence.
Liam's been having rice cereal in his formula all week now. The packet says to add 4 tablespoons to 120 - 160 mls of fluid (formula/water/ebm) but it was too thick to put through the bottle (which is how we wanted to start him because of the cleft palate) so we're only putting 1 tablespoon in a 150ml bottle of formula - up to 4 times a day. However, we've discovered that he's not eating as much now (one day he only had 4 bottles all day and didn't finish any of those!) but he's sleeping better at night. Over the weekend I intend to make the rice cereal up properly and feed it to him on a spoon to see how he goes.
I'm about to put some new pics in the gallery so feel free to have a squiz... some are awful cute!
Sharon - I've been meaning to get Liam to the CYH Nurse, but now I'm back at work I can't see when I'll get the time! Sounds like Ollie's doing great though!
BW - awwww... poor BJ Hope he's all better soon.
Welcome Danielle & Madison! We're a good bunch so feel free to dive on in if you've got something to say!
Grubi - hope that poo wasn't too huge! You haven't been in since!
BP - are we still allowed to call you Meg?
Sarah - Sounds like you're not having the best time at the moment Hope DH sees sense soon & things look up. We're a single income family (mine) and realise we'll have to go without some things to make ends meet - but we think it's worth it to have DH home looking after Liam and knowing that we'll both get quality time with him (I'm only 5 minutes from work & it's a great place to work).
to anyone else I've forgotten!
Last edited by Nettie; September 19th, 2008 at 08:34 PM.
Hope he's all better soon.
Hope DH sees sense soon & things look up. We're a single income family (mine) and realise we'll have to go without some things to make ends meet - but we think it's worth it to have DH home looking after Liam and knowing that we'll both get quality time with him (I'm only 5 minutes from work & it's a great place to work).
to anyone else I've forgotten!
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