Anna you dope... Why would anyone mind you checking in...?? Even if Rips wasn't a January baby nobody would care!! lol & giving DH the snip personally!!

Hawksey - Hugs to you!! I sooooooooo know what you mean!!

I am happy & rather awake for a change!!

Scarlett has had an awesome night & as she is asleep now it may even shape up to be an awesome day, but how many times have I said things are going well only to have it all come crashing down...?? I know I should not jinx myself but I just have to share!!

We went out yesterday with DP... didn't get much done, DP got a haircut, that's about it... but hey, we went out with the baby & made it home alive.... not a small feat when we are negotiating public transport all the time...!

Anywho, I bought a book on babies sleep while we were out & had a bit of a read when we got home... long story short, all my trouble might have been Scally just being a bit hungry all the time...?! I gave her 10mls of formula (don't have a breast pump yet but am getting one so that I can give her ebm if she needs more...) after her feed in the early evening & she slept until after 11, then, from midnight to 20 past 5!!! Then, happily, from about 6.30 to 9.30.... then she had some awesome awake time with HUGE smiles & coos () & she's been asleep again, after I put her to bed, AWAKE, in her cot, since quarter to 11!! I can't believe what a night 10mls of extra food has given me!! AND because she's sleeping longer, my breast are full when she wakes up for her next feed!!

I'm not counting my chickens yet, but I'm pretty happy atm!!

I do have one vent from yesterday though.... Our very first trip to the parent's room annoyed the cr@p outta me... I went in there but couldn't feed Scarlett because the 2 cubicle things with the curtain were occupied... fair enough you may say, other babies are hungry too that can't be helped, BUT, they were taken by a woman feeding her toddler baby food & another person feeding their baby a bottle... now I may just be being selfish but I only knew these people were in there because the damn curtains were open... obviously they weren't after privacy to feed their children.... there are other chairs in the parents room.... why?? Can't you feed a toddler pretty much anywhere..? What's the point of taking up a cubicle when you obviously don't need it?? I had to trudge up another 2 levels to find another parents room with a free cubicle so I could feed the now very hungry Scally in privacy.... I was rather annoyed.

Just so I don't have to have this issue again as soon as I got home I ordered a cool breastfeeding cover... I don't mind feeding somewhere else as long as I'm covered up, then atleast I won't have a screaming bub while I'm trying to negotiate a place to feed her!

Oh, she's awake!!