Thanks Fire - your monologue makes me feel better about the hand in mouth to self soothe business. DD only seems to do it when I've given up trying to settle or during the night to resettle.
I'm loathe to give a comforter as I was inadvertently given a comforter and I still have that as my comforter at night at the age of 38, sad, but true. Hopefully she doesn't need her thumb after 4.
I gave DS 50mls of EBM the night before last and he came back with the bottle and said "Mummy, I want some more of this one bottle, please." and gave me the doe eyes so he got another 50ml out of me. He just has the runny nose now, so I think you might be right about the antibodies Fire. DH isn't too sure - he said he doesn't like caramel icecream that made me FOCL.(fall off chair laughing).

Shoegal for Baxter reaching 5kg and 395gm in two weeks is good. Just to let you know there is a little girl in my mothers group who is one day older than my DD and last week she was still only 4.8kgs, when my DD had tipped the 6kg. Some kids are just smaller and the MCHN said as long as she is happy - don't be too concerned to the mother.

Sharon Yippee on the sleeps. Now you need to get sleep too - half of the cause of the low moods is the sleep deprivation altering your body chemistry. So I hope Oliver helps you by sleeping more and you take advantage of it.

Nettie/Fire So I guess when it comes to plastics since we are forced to use plastic so much now as adults since they stopped making glass softdrink and glass milk bottles etc I've probably already created a lot of the problems for my kids before they even start having a bottle.

Shellbell How is the EBM going and the educating of the ILs about how precious it is?

Still find the need to bow down in awe to those mothers with more than one under 4 that are fulltime mums (like Danielle, Lulu and Beatrix) sorry I can't remember all of you. My one day a week is hard enough to deal with, especially the TT and a baby.

Zennie How are things with DP? Improved? Things are much better for us now, we are planning on shipping at least DS (nearly 3) off at least once every 3 weeks to one of our parents and once every 2 months my parents will have both to give us some time to be adults and go out with friends together as opposed to him doing it all by himself. I'm keen on getting the chance to DTD again soon so will be suggesting ILs have DS overnight very soon since they have been OS for 6 weeks.

Okay I've made sufficiently good use of my post this time around I think. Apologies to all of you I missed out on personal comment to.

Seems everyone is avoiding making posts to slow the reaching of that magic 140. It has definitely slowed, is that because we are spending more time with the more alert little darlings?

I agree with Nettie it probably won't make a big difference as we will all either post in both or continue to use just one half irrespective of when in April we gave birth. Maybe we should all just agree on using the first or last half now .


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