Hi all,

Argh I have to go to work tomorrow!!!!

Tracey good luck at work for you tomorrow night too as I probably won't make it back on until tomorrow night, if i'm lucky. Thanks for all the info on the ebm. You do have a big boy there, we don't wear jamies to bed, too hot, but I was shocked at Xavier wearing an 0 sized singlet to bed. I guess with the feed and bed at about 8.45 you will still have to leave ebm for zy? Does he drink more to get him through the night? last time I left xavier with mum while we went out he drank about 250ml.

Raels, I hope you got the chance to get all dressed up, even if just at home.

Inlove, daycare, we are using a government run child care centre, full time mon -fri 8.30-5.30, ooo it sounds so long. I was not stressed about leaving xavier with them as he doesn't mind strangers too much and he's not clingy yet so it is a good time to leave him. I had a little seperation anxiety when I had to say bye, I don't actually understand the exact reason but I was sad. I was very unsure about what to do with milk too, as am supplying ebm. The first day I sent 500ml, and he drank hardly any but by friday he is getting better with them. I was still nervous about how much I should be providing but with the help of some of the girls on BB including Tracey, I am feeling a lot more confident about it all. RE sleep there the most important thing to me is night sleep, he had very little for them during the week and then Sat morning slept 3 hours for me, it seems my little boy is a sticky beak and there is way too much to look at when at child care. So i'm just going to go with the flow and hope for the best.

Remote controls, aren't they a babies best friend, nathan and I got our niece to crawl using the remotes, nathan would slide it across the room, and she wanted it soo much that she started crawling. We had her zig zaging across the room in no time

Flos, we don't think your self absorbed. I fail at routines. I follow the whatever it takes to get him to sleep at night, and it changes on a day to day basis. I am hoping that me having to get up for work every day will help as I am very fond of a sleep in so xave's start to the day has always been from when he woke up be it 5am or 8am.
Like sasha I have been doing my own version of CC, didn't realise until about 6 weeks that I was doing it from birth. I actually find with xavier that if he goes past the grizzle it's often too late.

V, when deciding on going back to work for me, it was actually better financially for me to go back full time rather than part time, when you take into account what you get paid, - c c costs as opposed to not working and just getting centrlink. It is different of course if you have some one who is willing to take avaleigh part time for no charge. another thing to consider is if you took full time care somewhere it is very easy to reduce the days she would go if Jasons work slowed down and he could be a sahd. Don't blame you for not wanting to go back to coles. I was at woolworths for 8 years and I am never, ever going back under any circumstances!!

Happy 6 months Autumn

Sacha, avocado is a great idea, i plan to give it to xavier but I have some vegies ready to go in the freezer, but it will def be on his menu.

Jem, Xavier is the biggest sticky beak, constantly looking around. all Nathan has to do is sit within a metre and he gets distracted. The child care staff say it's taking almost an hour to get him to eat and they have had to start putting him in a bouncer because he is too busy looking around to eat. Trying to get him started on solids, which he's been retty good at opening his mouth when he sees the spoon, until tonight when he caught a glimpse of his cousin and wouldn't stop stearing at her.

ok well look at the time, and to think I have to get up at 6am to get ready for work.

Everyone look after yourselves no doubt I will be mia for a couple of days while i get back into things.