Well, thankfully I can say the past few days have been better with the kids, though I got Lily's bug night before last and was vomiting and had high fevers all night, not pleasant! Lil's still pretty sick too with fevers and conjunctivitis, poor little bear. Liam has slept better the past few nights which is good I would have gone insane with sleep deprivation other wise!
Ok gotta go and do some house work while it's quiet....
Kellieem - Oh sorry to hear you are having such a rough time. Fingers crossed that things are getting better...

Oh Erin im so glad you said something so positive...i too am having a wonderful time with Thomas but didnt want to say anything while others seemed to be having such a tough time. Thomas is a very "good" baby. I know he feeds through the night but never have a clue how many times or how long inbetween as i stay asleep I have tried everything to say awake LOL but we just end up asleep together, its lovely. Eve comes in at some stage, normally around 1am and grace at about 6 but we all stay asleep til 8! Thomas has one unsettled time a day but hay.... i just let him feed, and feed and feed... then bath then feed then his gone.
Milly - That is wonderful to hear and must say I feel the same. I haven't had the massive sleep deprivation that I've read about but I didn't want to say anything either. Glad to hear Thomas is doing well.

Hi girls, sorry no chance of me catching up on personals at the moment. Very warn out here, Tobias has hardly slept today, last night was ok although I was up with him between 2:30 & 4am as he wouldn't settle after his bottle for some reason grrrrrrr. Today he is grizzly & fights going to sleep with his big eyes instead of sleepy eyes. He's asleep now so I'm trying to rest on the lounge a bit before velcro boy wakes again, I should be doing the dishes though.

My doctor called me the other day saying that the swab they took from my right nipple shows an infection & germs growing there so I need to go in & get some anti-biotics for it. It's awful & hurts so much! I must find the time to get in there & get the meds.
Daneille_M - Hope the antibiotics fix things up really quickly. Can be nothing worse than having sore "bits" and those "bits" are being used so frequently. I had a few blood blisters and grazes and that was painful enough let alone what I can only imagine you are experiencing.

Kristi, Lea, Belinda - hope you are all doing ok !

We are doing well. Yesterday Ali had her first sleeps in her big cot in her own room. I managed to catch the tired signs and put her in her cot just before she really went to sleep and she put herself to sleep properly and had two big cot sleeps so I am stoked.

Today we went to Mothers Group and went through the introductions etc .. there are 9 mums in my group and I went to lunch with two of them and one only lives a 10 min walk form me which will be nice to have someone else nice and close ...

Other than that we have Ali's 6 week check up tomorrow and my 6 week check. Although I drove today and got myself and Ali out and about with no one - felt weird but then I felt all empowered and in control and it was just Ali and me and I managed to do it so I felt pretty good with myself first trip out by ourselves and all !!!

Hope everyone having better days ...

Thinking of you all and big hugs to everyone

Mel
xo
Mel We are doing good thanks. Had a better day today. Our weekend was really good but Monday/Tuesday were not so great. Glad to hear Ali had her sleeps in her cot, big step and sounds like you approached it really well.
Glad mothers group went off without any trouble.

US - As for us we had an unsettled Monday and Tuesday. My milk supply dropped off again and I didn't respond as quickly to the motillium as I did the first time. Chloe was not sleeping or when she would sleep it had to be on me. As soon as I put her in the cradle she would scream her heart out so I resorted to co-sleeping with her Monday night after she went till 2.30am screaming. Last night I had nothing to feed her and she was pulling and tugging like it was an empty bag. Luckily I had some expressed so I fed her with that and sure enough she crashed out at around 10am. She woke at 7am this morning and to my surprise I woke up looking like dolly parton so she has been super happy today. I think she may have had a little growth spurt to just make the situation more fun but has been all good today. I've been expressing when i could and have a good 100ml in waiting should i need it.

We've also managed two very successful bath sessions. Chloe had previously screamed during her baths, all except 1 in hospital. But our last 2 baths have been really good with no screaming and her appearing to enjoy laying in the water.

Anyway I better be going, Chloe due for feed soon and then it's off to bed for what I hope is another 8-9 hour sleep.