Hi everyone,
Happy 4 months to Colby and Xavier!! Wow, it seems so old huh???
Since I have the PILs here (more on that later), I have been looking at nb photos of Milla, and showing them how small her 0000 clothes were... she is 6.1kg now, so double the weight she was when she left hospital. She looked sooooo small in the early photos, I can't believe how much she has grown already, and I want another nb already!! Where did that time go?

Sonia - I don't know how you do it, with working and getting up a few times a night. Hang in there though, cause I'm sure it will improve. Milla is mostly waking twice a night between 7pm and 7am - usually at 12 or 1, then again at 3 or 4. Last night was a miraculous huge sleep with only a 4:20am wake up. My bbs were so overflowing when I woke at 6am, I expressed 100ml out in about 3 minutes - it was spurting everywhere.

So, the PILs. Its OK. They are lovely people, and are a great help with dishes and cleaning I am being very adamant about doing things my way in terms of feeding Milla and putting her down for sleeps.... MIL has never BF, so I have explained to her that Milla gets all her requirements through BM, and some of the time she is just thirsty etc. MIL asks every time I feed her "oh, she can't be hungry already can she?" ... I have some EBM in the freezer, so I showed her the layers it forms, and explained that sometimes Milla just drinks the "watery stuff", and that that doesn't fill her up, so of course she needs to feed more often than every 4 hours. Seems to have put the message across, and hopefully I wont need to defend my choice to demand-feed ! I think MIL is genuinely interested in how it all works, and its all ok.

Milla keeps chewing her hand (so much so that she gags sometimes cause her fingers go too far down her throat!!!), and MIL kept saying on the first day "Oh, she must be hungry", but now its obvious that Milla ISN'T hungry, cause she is covered in fat rolls, and eats every two hours or so! Now MIL says "Oh, dont chew your fingers"'!!!!! Nothing is gonna stop Milla from chewing her fingers. Today she started chewing the corner of a chocolate box she picked up.... good taste she's got, i say!

We have had lots of laughing and cackling too - last night I was imitating her cry during arsenic hour, and she suddenly stopped crying, and started laughing at me!! She was laughing for about 3 minutes, just at my pathetic attempt to imitate a cry... ROFL. FIL got it on video....

We have mothers group Christmas party and I am going to make some cookies if I can find a good recipe... I have cookie cutters that have never been used, so now that I am a housewife (temporarily!), with 24/7 babysitters on hand, I am going to cook heaps.

Becca, i reckon the pool-side meeting is a great idea, I'm going to suggest it for our next meeting too. I have got a top-to-toe rashy swimsuit for Milla, but still waiting for the arrival of the nappies. I got some from Beyond Belly too - have you got yours in the mail yet?

Off to start baking!

Byeeee