Hi everyone,

I am up in Moree..country NSW and I am having a nice and relaxing time. Emily was great in the car up here. It was about 7 hours and she happily slept in the car until we stopped and fed her and then went back off to sleep easily until the next stop for a feed. we only need to stop twice which is what we would have done without a bub (but stops would not have been as long of course). She was pretty unsettled when we first got here and was sleeping well at night but on Sunday pretty much did not sleep all day from 6am to 8pm only little catnaps in between. However she had a feed at 9.30pm that night and did not wake until 6am as she was probably so tired.

I visited a nursing home today as part of the program the Bible College student are doing up here. Emily was passed around by heaps of people and she happily slept in their arms. It was lovely to see the old people enjoying holding a baby.

Gypsy: I agree with the others it is a myth. Emily does a couple of night here and there doing what I call sleeping through which to me means she does not wake up in the middle of the night so might feed as late as 11.30pm (but sometimes as early as 9.30pm) and then sleeps to between 5am to 6.30am. So is sleeping between 5-8 hours. She is 8 weeks but then regularly goes back to the middle of the night feed which is between 2am and 4am. I think that at 8 weeks lots and lots of babies are still waking up for between 1-2 feeds in the night.

Ren: Good to hear you got the hugabub. I am thinking of getting one as a friend lent me the baby bjorn but I hardly use it as I found it hurt my back. I might do some hug a bub research. How old/heavy can they be and still use it?

disgirl: Isn't the chattiness of our bubs lovely. Sometimes it is like she is really having a conversation with me. I know she does not understand me but it is so cute to hear them babble back to us. Emily found herself in the mirror too. Her playmat has one and it was hard to get her away from it. Hopefully not a sign of things to come


runner: It is so good tohear you are keeping up the training. I have only run twice now and find that with the hot weather and just having to be organised I just don't even get out for a walk.

hello to everyone else