Cream, I use the Johnson's baby naturals (in the green bottle) - I also use it as a hand cream cause my fingertips are prone to splitting at the moment (but I also read that taking flaxseed oil is good for that too, so I'm doing that too!). About a week after Veygas was born, he went all dry and flaky, and this cream cleared it up in one day! So I have just kept using it to keep him soft and moisturised!! With DD, I used innoxa - baby bath, baby oil, baby shampoo and baby moisturiser (also the innoxa nipple cream worked wonders too!) - but I can't get it anymore, none of the chemists here seem to stock any of it!

Mel - yeah I had an abscess in my groin - bl00dy painful thing it was too, it hurt when I walked, stood, sat - it ballooned to 2cmx3cm in one day, out of nowhere! The doc reckons it was caused by an infected hair follicle! Having it drained hurt as much (if not more) than childbirth, I reckon!!

Early childhood nurse came around and visited today - Veygas now weighs 5620 grams, up 1860 grams from his birth weight (sheesh, nearly 2 kg!) in just 5 weeks! (man, that's an average of 372g per week!) :O Methinks he has started his growth spurt early!! His head circumference is now 39.5cm - 3.5cm bigger than birth!! Funny thing is, he still looks small, and still fits into 0000's with room to grow! So he must just be a short-ar$e like his mummy!! LOL!

Vic - the polished concrete sounds awesome!! What a fantastic idea! Did you guys design the house yourselves? I love the plans, it's so unique!

Well, we all got out of the house on Sunday and spent the day outdoors! Veygas was really good all day, but had a bit of a crappy night (he woke up about 3 or 4 times and feel asleep again after 5minute top up feeds - but I didn't have the heart to wake him to feed more!) It was good to be out as a family though, plus we met up with a friend who separated from his wife about a year ago, and now has sole custody of their FIVE kids - so that was fun, 3 of us trying to keep an eye on 9 kids!!

Hopefully this flu thingy is on it's way out - I gave in and started taking some natural cold & flu tablets cause I was just feeling like crap, and getting really irritable all the time, and I figured I'm no good to anyone if I'm sick and can't do anything!

Anyway, hope all mums and bubs are well - maybe I should jump on in the middle of the night when Veygas won't settle as well!! hehee