New Dawn, you've really been put through the wringer haven't you?! You've got your hands full with 4 winkies, even without the drama of going through a relationship breakdown as well. I'm sure you must be one tough cookie to get through that. I would love to have come to the meet up next Thursday but I have 2 appointments including my 6 week ob check up, but I'll definitely come to the next one. It would be great to finally meet everyone! I'm only 10 minutes from the Glen as well, so pretty close to you.

Babyluv, yay to ditching the shields. The midwives got me to try them while in hospital but I didn't like using them so persisted without them. I'm still having other problems but I just didn't like having plastic between bubs and my boob. Hopefully S will keep feeding well without them.

Mrs Bexie - Ha, no more ice cream for you! You could have sorbet/gelati though? Mmmm, yum. You sound much better today too. Thanks for asking how our feeding was going, I'm still having a little bit of a problem, but things are much better. K's oral thrush has gone completely and Ijust have a little bit of nipple thrush left, and one crack has healed so I only have a cracked nipple on the left but man it kills and isn't really getting any better. i have to grin and bear it on that side, the first minute is the worstthen I can relax a little. I don't think our attachment is great sometimes but now I can't tell the difference between pain from the cracked nipple and thrush and pain from plain old bad attachment. It's definitely all going much better than a few weeks ago though! We even did our first breastfeed in public yesterday, yay!

Kirsten - woo hoo to Q loving kinder, glad there were no tears - from you or him. And I agree with Mrs B, you bake great looking kids!

Got to go, K is waking up for more dairy cow action! Hi to everyone else.