Hi ya All,

Last night Ela had her longest sleeps ever. She slept at 10pm, which is pretty late for her as she is asleep by 8.30-9pm but then again she slept alot yesterday during the day. I had to wake her at 4am (after 6 hours) as my breasts were killing, we did the regular stuff and she was asleep again by 5am and we both slept til 9am, which again i woke her up. I feel so good today, longest unbroken sleep i had for ages.

Bec - i guess your right about breaking Ela's sleep routine, i never thought of that. I'll try not to wake her from now on. Expressing is so damn inconvenient in the middle of the night but if it gets too painful, i guess i'll have to take out the old hand pump.

For those that store expressed breast milk, have you bought those plastic bags esp. designed for storing breast milk or do you store it some other way? If i was to store it i would freeze it i guess.

Sara- Geez darl, that sure does traumatic re: the placenta, the blood loss and the transfusion. Good to see that you are all fit and healthy again!

I really think that a night bath really relaxes them. Ela always has one. I heat her room first and then we bathe her in her room (we have a change table and bath in one thingy), she kicks around for 5-10 mins, shampoo, dry and dress her, feed her and shes asleep. Last night, she smiled at me for the first time in the bath (she normally doesn't like having a bath, but shes getting used to it as the days go on).

I took Ela and her 2 Cabbage Patch Babies to have a Pixie Foto taken yesterday. We had to wait a little and Ela got all grumpy. We could only get one decent photo (due to her grumpiness) but the photo came out real well with her and her dolls. She looks like a live CPK with her huge cheeks.

That's all from me today. Take care all.