Hi all,

V, you fight them, I'm sure you will get to go scuba diving. I hope you get the work you want.

Floss, I agree with raels, you need to do what you think is best for your bub. Remember you can always go to another nurse even if just once for a second opinion. Different nurses have different interpretations of the guidelines. I would have also thought that if you were introducing lumps you would puree less so vegies would be more lumpy to start with. RE poo, xavier when it's hot wil poo a max of twice a day in the coolest part of the day. If it's cool he pretty much poos once for every feed. but we get anywhere from 2-6 poos per day.

Nicki, Xavier does get baby rice but that's it until 6 months ish. If lach is happy then let him be, he will let you know if he wants more, i'm sure. xavier was starting to show some signs of needing more, and now that he has started he is eyeing off our food in a whole new way. Has his eyes on my vegiemite toast!!
I hear you on the heat we have no aircon so I think our house ends up 2-3 degrees above the outside temp.

Happy 6 months lucas

Tracey, that's fantastic!! They must really want you in that job. Do you still have to work with that women though??

teeth, I don't know how you guys manage to check out inside your bubs mouth, if I try to look or feel I'm not allowed, he turns his head and nything that goes in his mouth gets power sucked on!! But I think we will be waiting a while for those here, thankfully!!

Argh Xavier and I still both have snotty noses, this is really frustrating and I just wish they would go away!! It's so frustrating not being able to take anything. Mines not bad but I do have asthma playing up because of it, but my poor little man is having difficulty breathing. He has even started breathing through his mouth already, and to top it all off it's stinking hot and some nights he doesn't even have a singlet on that I can put a little vicks on. We have his bed tilted. The other night our house didn't drop below 35 degrees all night. I have cold packs in the fridge that I cool down his matress with before he goes to bed it's so hot.
That's my rant. Thanks for listening.

Well I got through my first week of work and a whole week of expressing. The aircon at work didn't work on thurs - Fri so aas you can imagine it got quite warm which made expressing difficult. Trying to remember to drink as much water as possible but it's so hard to remember. I'm also getting very hungry so I had to buy some snacks for work. lol my office is full of food.

I am expressing 3 times per day while I'm at work. Now I know that at some stage he will reduce the amount of feeds per day and possibly increase the amount he has too. given that he is getting ebm 5 times a week and only me on the weekends i'm thinking it's going to be harder for my body to adjust to new feeding patterns. Has anyone got any ideas about this.

Thanks