alittlegrubi I can't remember who suggested it, but one of your shirts/tops that you have worn (the smellier the better) placed in the cot/bassinette may help bubs to settle. I read somewhere that you should stop feeding from the breast that you have the mastitis in but I am sure that a BF expert on here will confirm or deny that lol, hope it gets better soon.
Danielle we are going ok, just plodding along really. How are you going?
Jodie82 will check out your pics after I have posted.
sarah_dobbo2 don't know when DH finds out if he has made it to second round interviews, if he does make them they want him to go to the island so he can have a guided tour. As for the movie, looks like I am going on Monday, will go into more detail at end of post. My eldest son (19) would only ever sleep on his stomach, day and night, but that was before they associated SIDS with tummy sleeping.
Nettie I agree that this group is huge, and it's really difficult doing personals for everyone.
Fire I've heard the Medella breast pumps are excellent, I think they are the brand that most hospitals use and recommend.
mgm I normally wouldn't mind going to a mums and bubs session, but for some reason I really wanted to share this movie with a bunch of GF's.
BabyWrangler yay, way to go BJ, at Paed's today he checked Oliver's hips and told me (and him) it would probably hurt, he didn't flinch one bit, Dr asked him if he liked pain LOL
MummyMeg I have always been told that it isn't completely necessary to 'burp" bubs after a feed unless they really need it. Hope you managed to get some sleep in when Isabelle had her long stretches of sleep.

Well I had a really good day today, my BF came over (as is usual for a tuesday morning) and brought with her the usual can of coke and a cream bun (our weekly indulgence) and I was telling her how upset I was that I was missing out on seeing the movie with her, she immediately turned round and told me she wasn't going to go with everyone else, she would pull out (even though she was the one that suggested the whole thing), she was adamant and she even made me go and book tickets for us on the Monday instead, she said that if she can't get out of it with the other girls then she will see it twice, when I asked her 'what if it's crap' her reply was 'i'll just bring a pillow and a blanket'. Then at school pick up today, I was driving to school and one of the mums called me and told me to park my car in carpark and she would collect Jordan and walk him over to me so that I didn't have to get Oliver out of the car in the pouring rain, the generosity of some people continues to amaze me.

Oliver went really well last night, his last feed was at 10.30 (sneaky feed as usual) and he slept through till 6am, the only bugger about it is that I had problems falling asleep last night so didn't feel the full benefit of it. We went to Paed today and he told me I could increase his zantac to twice a day and if needed 3 times a day. I told him I was concerned that he may not be eating as much as he needs (CHN said 150ml / Kilo of body weight) he said that was just a guide, he then said 'look at him, he is a big boy, he's a piggy' so i feel happier about that, he checked his feet and said that they where now perfect (phew), he has put on 1kg since birth, so he is now 5.84kg.

OK, essay now over! sorry to anyone i've missed but there is just so many of us in here it is so hard to keep up.

Edited to add, that it took me so long to complete this post that I had to log back in again due to innactivity