Hi everyone!

It's been a while since I've posted - I've been lurking though - hi to everyone! To those who are having good days, yay, to those who aren't - hugs.

We are having a good and bad time ATM. I've come down with the start of mastitis in the last 24 hours. Ouch. A little better this morning after I've fed him - the boob is still hard but not rock hard, it seems to be getting better with each feed. I have the antibiotics but am umming and aahing - I don't want to give him an unsettled stomach (last time I was on antibiotics his poo was frightening and he was cranky for days), but don't want to end up with full blown mastitis. My temperature is fine, so it's not the end of the world. I think I'll see what it's like after the next feed and if it doesn't improve further then I'll take the antibiotics.

On the flip side, Euan is settling much better and has been a mostly happy baby now that he's got over being a bit off-colour after his immunisations. Nothing specific, he was just really grizzly and clingy for about 4 days. We've got a new settling routine, which is that I wrap him up, then lie with him on the spare bed and talk to him and stroke his forehead until he falls asleep (anywhere from 10 minutes to 2 hours). Sometimes I just lie next to him. Luckily for my back he seemed to get sick of being carried to sleep - it's like he wants to self settle but doesn't want to do it alone. Very cute.

We had a parent's group meeting thing at the CHC yesterday and got to meet other mums with bubs Euan's age - it was awesome! Euan was so lovely - he just sat on my lap and smiled at everybody - the little social butterfly. He's put on almost 750gm in the last three weeks - he was 5.59kg at 9 weeks, and 60cm long (someone was asking whether any body else's bub was 60cm long - mine is!!).

Anyway, I'm off to have a lie-down whilst the little bugger is asleep!