Thanks girls, glad to see it's not just me being *****d about it. I am ABSOLUTELY NOT ok with what he did, and I actually forgot to mention that I cought my BIL (SIL's husband - not my actual brother) rubbing ice over his lips and letting him suck on it...I asked him not to then found out last night when talking to DH that he had caught his OTHER sister (not the one that just had a baby) doing the SAME thing!!! ARGH, makes me wild. All it does is make me not trust them even more but the difficult part is, if I say "please stay close by, I don't trust you with him when it comes to giving him things after I specifically ask no" they will just do it more to try and get under my skin. It's a no win situation and sadly the only thing I can do to avoid it is to not be around them at all .... which makes me even worse of a person in their eyes.

Crumpet - Sounds like you're having fun with solids also, glad summah is enjoying them! Glad to hear her sleeping is back on track. How exciting about your holiday!! I hope you have an awesome time.

Hello to everyone else, I hope you and your little ones are doing well. We are at my mum and dads now till early next week, Jacobs christening is this Sunday, bit excited!!! My SIL and her baby are doing ok...there have been a few complications and to be completely honest with you, I'm not 100% sure they are treating her or her baby very well in there. DH and I have talked about it and we just can't believe the things that are happening. He was born just short of 37 weeks and she had pethadine (sp?) when she was in labour and he was really affected by it. There are some blood group issues etc but the thing that confuses me is the midwives were saying 'he wont' latch' so she was hand expressing colostrum and was getting out what I thought was heaps! but before he was 48 hours old they were supplement feeding him with formula and he was sucking on the bottle like a little champion. I didn't even see a midwife around trying to offer help with attachment. He's now being TUBE FED?! (the tube was put in just after he was 48 hours old...) Very strange but I guess they have their reasons, I am no expert. She's getting milk but they are making her express and only getting her to express for every second feed....hmmmm. Not my place to get involved.

xo
hun im harsh in the fact that if someone does something i dont approve of with summah after ive asked them not to, i wont take summah to visit.
im sick of ppl not respecting our parenting choices so i figure ill punish them! bad i know, but trust me they soon figure it out!

solids are fun!
she LOVES banana! of course she does, they are a million $$$ per kilo atm

oh no sounds quite weird about the treatment ur SIL is recieving! i hope everything is ok!

See Charlotte, that's what worries me, he's not in special care!! He's in her room all the time! and the doc requested he be put in the humicrib the whole first night but the midwives didn't do it!!! Makes me so angry. She's not standing up to them at all so they are walking all over her! DH spoke to his mum about it and she got really defensive and argued with him so clearly we can't help them so we just have to sit back, watch and hope for the best.
wow the nurses not taking dr's orders? thats really concerning!
is there a way you can talk to the babys dad?

Well, hannah appears to be back to normal. Thank God, I don't want to have to deal with that drama again.

I'm cold again today. I forgot that I hate winter.
yay go hannah!!

urgh its freezing!!! my heater is cranked.... again!

AFU: its starting to occur to me how much im going to need to pack to take away next week! excess baggage here we come!
nah should be ok, but lordy my house will nearly be empty by the time we leave!
wish i could take my sterilizer but thats a bit over the top, expecially for 4 days! ill just take the milton tablets and sterilize her stuff that way...