Hi all,

MadB I find the shopping centre a useful refuge at the moment too Although on Friday there were a lot of frantic and fed up parents with school-age kids!

EJ the photobooks sound beautiful I'll need to do something similar - we have lots of photos but of course they haven't been printed!

Georgi, brilliant on Eden's growth! And I think if you're eating that much good food and taking weight off then you're fine. Wish I had the discipline you do! I'm barely hungry at all now I'm not bf, I really have to remind myself to eat (the heat doesn't help). So when I do eat I tend to go for treats rather than decent food!

Hi Jules It doesn't sound like a supply issue at all - I could barely express anything, either by pump or manually when my supply started going, and there was no way Amelia would sleep 4 hours at a stretch at any time without comp feeding. Relax, you're doing great

Audax... PHEW. Thank goodness you had her in the sling. LOL at the housework though, wish ours did itself!

As for us... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh I need some sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. It's not Amelia's fault, it is totally my inability to switch off. My wonderful sister-in-law has given me some sleepytime tea which is about to be brewed, but yesterday I was completely wrecked and today I'm not much better. When I do sleep I have very anxious dreams, so wake up unrefreshed. The one nice dream I have had I was bf Amelia again, so I woke up sad. The parent support group starts up again tomorrow and my MCHN will be there so I'll speak to her again, then if things haven't improved after a couple of days I'll go to my GP and get that referral. It's rediculous because since Mum left I have been managing really well and we've had a lovely few days - I think it's my subconscious ganging up on me. Blah.

Millie is doing well - the new formula seems to be agreeing with her and because I'm calmer, she's been really good. We were out and about most of Friday and yesterday so she's a bit tired today, but at Mass this morning she was perfectly behaved, even unwrapped (it was hot and for once I had put her in a cute outfit rather than a onesie, which I thought might have bunched up in her wrap). She's been a bit unsettled tonight but it was very warm upstairs so we have her down here in her bouncer. I'm trying to swap her night feed over from 2am back to 10pm so will see how that goes...

Night all
xox