Hi everyone!
I had written a huge post, and then I went to put a new smilie in it, and I lost the whole thing!!!!

So, just quickly now, as I am running out of time!!!!

YAY to Xavier for crawling! He'll be up on the furniture before you know it...! How is his sleep going? Do you find he wants to feed during the night still, since he's at daycare?

Molly - Thanks for keeping up with Milla and the great dummy removal story! We are getting there, but its kinda two steps forward, one step backwards. She is just too addicted to it to go fully cold turkey, and I can't leave her crying. She doesn't have it all night, maybe just for a minute or two to calm her down if she wakes less than 2 hours since I last fed her. So last night I had to feed her at 10, then DH gave her the dummy for a few minutes when she woke at 11, then I fed her at 2, and then she came in to our bed and fed AGAIN at 4.!!!! Grrrrr. I am hardly getting any sleep these days. Day sleeps are OK, mostly without the dummy, but today she was extra cranky and wouldn't settle at all (despite being tired, I know the signs so well now), so I caved in and gave her the dummy for a few minutes. She doesn't seem to care too much when we pull it out. Trick now is to be able to pull it out BEFORE she is asleep, and so far we haven't been able to do that without serious screaming... I am sure she is teething, she has never been such a bad sleeper as this, and I can see the top teeth just below the gum. Brauers teething relief and bonjela don't make any difference, and I am not going to give her panadol every night just so she sleeps...

Scone - yeah, Milla was exactly the same with BB feeds a while ago, and I was desperately trying everything to keep her day feeds going. She happily feeds all night... I found I really had to persevere, and in the end what worked was going in to her room turning off the lights, bouncing on a swiss ball and singing to her!!! This combined effort distracted her enough to encourage her to feed for more than 30 seconds! She did pass through that phase and now feeds pretty well during the day, so long as no-one talks, makes a noise, turns on the TV... or generally does anything more interesing than a boobie! Milla has never had a bottle (and in fact refused to drink formula from one when I tried to top her up last week). Keep offering, and avoid all distraction, and maybe Jensen will also pass through the refusal phase. I got the ABA booklet, but most of the info is free on their website anyway. I was worried about Millas weight gain over this period too, which was only about 100g in a month. That's why I happily fed her as often as she wanted at night. Now that is killing me, cause she wants to feed all night still, despite feeding at least 4 times properly during the day, AND being a total guts with solids. I am going to weigh her tomorrow..... surely she will have put some more on this month!!! I am hoping for 8kg by her 8 months...

Gotta go, hope I don't lose this post now that it turned back in to a mega one!