I bath Ci in just water. Mostly it is a bath with me at night and a few drops of lavender oil, and about once a week he showers with daddy. We skip the occasional night but I was using it as a nighttime cue so we bathed regardless for a while there.

Regarding maids, did you know that Europe kicks a$$ in the post birth department? One of them has a $28000 baby bonus (and no, that extra zero was not a mistake), France has a maid for six weeks post partum... there are so many things we should get from our gov't since we're a socialist country basically. Oh well, one day when they realise the importance of the mother in the future of our nation. The movie Sicko is really good for health comparisons actually.

All you people going to bed so late, I envy you. I am still in bed at 7pm and may be for some time yet because he feeds every hour after midnight. I hear cosleeping breastfed babies do that until weaned and it freaks me out so I'm just taking it a day at a time at the moment so it doesn't do my head in.

Toni, apparently breast milk is digested in an hour, better on their bellies but not so good on mama! It was (here I go again ) apparently designed by nature to keep mothers and babies together constantly, but I wish evolution would catch up cos the likelihood of DS being eaten by wild lions now is rather slim so we don't need all these built in bios anymore!

Seriously wishing I could change the all night feeding thing here, but unwilling at such a young age. I thought six months would be ok but apparently forcing anything onto them before a year is a no-go. I hear the No Cry Sleep Solution can be started at 9 months, but even that sounds so far away. Ugh. I haven't had a stretch of sleep longer than 3 hours in three months. Most of my sleep is in hourly chunks, I think I had a couple of three hour stretches total when he did a five hour stint a couple of times. But that's all pre-midnight. After that, the buffet is open, apparently.

Le sigh.