Crikey, you girls are hard to keep up with...

Cant remember who said what so I will just comment on it all:

Celeste puts herself to sleep in the daytime pretty well usually. I always feed her first thing when she wakes then change her and have playtime. I watch out for the sleepy signals then change her if its been a while and after a quick cuddle I just put her in her hammock and swing it a bit and walk out of the room. She sometimes goes straight to sleep but its not unusual for her to lie there for 20mins just looking at her hands or the mobile and having a chat to herself. The last few days she hasnt slept well in the day but that is because she has a cold. She has been waking after 10 or 15mins and been a bit grizzly.

You girls and your babies weight gains.. far out! What a champion group of growers!!! Make me jealous why dont you? hehehe. I guess we all have those things that we worry over: either wishing we could BF, or that bubs would sleep better, or put on more weight, or smile or whatever... For me personally its the whole vag birth thing. I think thats the one that makes me jealous. Isnt it funny that even though we all have these beautiful babies who are doing so well, we wish for that little bit more? Seems so wrong to me really. KWIM? Like I should just be so damn thankful that I have this beautiful healthy girl and she sleeps and feeds like a dream, has a fab personality etc and here I am getting all sad over something I have no control over! It is in the past for crying out loud!

OK, got that out of my system: SORRY everyone!!!!

About the water: I only just started offering it to Celeste after a full feed once a day or so. She wasnt really interested yesterday but I think the teat was too small so today I gave her the number 2 avent and she drank around 20ml water. We had been out to do the shopping with her in her carrier and she got so hot in there pressed against me for that hour or so that I thought she might need that bit extra... what are you all doing with that?

For those BF: are your bras still fitting? I bought maternity ones I thought had heaps of room in them while pg and they did fit quite well for a while but lately I have been bursting out of them! They are ok in the body but not in the important bit. Also, when I sleep after a feed and my boobs are empty they kind of flop out of the middle and then the breast pad isnt inthe right place so I leak everywhere as they fill. Any tips??????

Gotta tell you my story of Celeste and her feeding sense of humour. She has started this thing where after she has had that frantic hungry part of the feed and she has settled into it a bit more she starts pausing between sucks and, while looking at my face goes "hhmmmmm, hmmmmm" then starts sucking again. Like she is saying how much she is enjoying herself, soooo cute! Also if she has dropped off the boob in that drunk kind of way with her eyes closed but still awake I will tickle her mouth and nose with my nipple and say "do you want some more?" in a funny way. She will keep her eyes and mouth closed but give me a big cheeky smile!!!! cracks me up!!!!!

Meant to tell you about my mothers group on tuesday. It was great!!! It is a 5week thing run but the child nurse with a bit of a topic each week but is mostly designed to get a group of new mums to set up their own social gatherings for after the 5weeks is up. The ladies are awesome and although I have seen most of them around town before, we wouldnt get together socially if it hadnt been set up for us. I highly recomend them if you want to meet others!

Well, should go do something constructive... or else start my scrapbooking album for Celeste. Which do you think I will choose? hehehe

Hello to all!!!!!!

PS, thanks for looking at my pics, I think she is pretty cute also. I have tried to look at everyones photos here but havent got around to you all yet. So far everyones baby is BEAUTIFUL