Janine - You remind me of myself! I like kids I can interact with too! This whole baby thing is very stressful & tiring. We haven't been doing a lot of tummy time either - DS doesn't seem to like it much. However, we prop him up on our shoulders regularly and he gets practice at holding his head up then. He's very good at it in this position, but on his tummy he's quite frustrated. I don't think he likes to not be able to see anything!

Went to 'Cleft Clinic' yesterday and they had about 7 people in the room (plastic surgeons, speech pathologists, head of 'cleft' department, orthodontists, etc) and all they did was look in his mouth and answer my questions. Thankfully we don't need to persist with the feeding plate. DS was getting very upset using it so about 5 days ago we stopped using it and figured out a way to feed him without it - it works so much better and he is so much calmer at feeds now. They didn't quite believe us that he can suck the bottle on his own without help from us, but he's just slow at it. He's such a clever little man!

I see I now have my avatar - yay!! Thank you Kathryn!