Hi all,

It's been a while, I think i'm averaging about once a month.

Kim, ouch on being bitten. When xavier is hungry he will crawl up to any of us, pull him self up and go to town slobering all over the boob area, even on daddy.
How long do you have to wait after having rubella booster to conceive. I'm thinking I should get my levels checked again before we want to TTC the next bub.

Campari, ouch, I don't think xavier has bitten me that hard, but I hear you on the being scared. I refused to feed him one afternoon and made him wait while I expressed. He hasn't bitten me for a while now, but i do get some grinding.

Xavier has 4 teeth now, but he has some bad habits because he has been so sick and sleepless for so long, he likes to feed 10-11pm and then again anywhere between 3-5am. I don't mind any feeding prior to midnight, but am really trying to break extend the second feed later and later.

Ali, you really have a little battler there huh? We haven't had pnumonia here but I have found out that it's just not fair for little people to get sick.

Scone, I think Xavier has had a cold since about december last year. A couple of bad ones in there, we just finished our second batch of antibiotics. He was diagnosed with croup a few weeks ago, poor little might sounded like a seal at night. He had a dose of steroids, and has been much better since. Haven't needed to go back to the doctor about it. Hopefully the last lot of antibiotcs has worked it's magic and we might get a re-prieve.
OOO we have tanty's in the middle of the night, perhaps I should plug a heater in.


I saw you were talking about ebm and child care and what is best??? we are now 5 months having ebm at creche. Xavier is now on 2 feeds per day, of anywhere from 100-180ml per feed. (usually less) because of his age now and the amount of foods he eats I'm not too worried about how much I provide because he won't go hungry but I aim for about 150ml per feed. It is important to ensure that the creche heats your milk properly. The ladies in Xavier's room are very concious of not wasting any of the liquid gold, so that is really good. being ebm everything needs to be washed well but not sterilized so it's a little less prep work in that regard. But there is another side to it. It can feel akward expressing at work sometimes. My biggest struggle is finding time when i'm really busy. I aim to express around the times that xavier feeds so that weekend are not effected. At my work i need to find an empty office to use each day and it is getting harder. I struggle sometimes a find myself thinking i wish I didn't have to do it or that he would be ready to drop another feed. I have also found that when I got sick my supply plumeted and I'm having to work really hard to get it back. I even bought formula for a couple of comp feeds.
Not sure if that infor has helped with your decisions but I don't come on here very often so thought I'd give as much info asa possible.

Keeping a bub still on change table, toys toys toys, and if your toy has to be the wipes packet (supervised of course) then so be it. Xavier is very well behaved on change table. On the floor he is off like a light!!

Sehra, I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. Take care.

Where are we at. We have 4 teeth, there are more in there somewhere but no where near the surface. xave pulls himself on furniture but hasn't worked out the moving along it yet. We have on of those fisher price doorways and he stands up against it and shakes it, little roughian. He is such a little boy and has started sooking at creche now, not when mummy goes to work, no no probs with that. My boy sooks when the bigger kids get to go outside and he doesn't because it's too cold, picture little bub standing at a glass door smaking it with hand because he too wants to go out to play.

I'm not sure to do with weaning. I have some formula because my supply droped so much when I got sick, but am not that keen on using it. I thought you were supposed to wait until around 12 months to give cows milk to drink so was planning to wait until after his first birthday. Xave seems very fond of booby and I can't see him giving up in the near future, but at the very least I would like him to switch is day toime feeds to cows milk and keep his first and last feeds for a little while.

Well best be off, I've used up about as much me time as i'm allowed these days

everyone take care

Bec