Happy (very Belated) Birthday to Lachlan!!! Hope you had a super day.

Sarah - isn't it satisfying when all your hard work pays off & the party goes well. It's great that your Dad & brother made peace with each other after all that time. BUT OMG at the convulsions, that must have been so scary for you, poor little man. I hope the ab's are working & the UTI is clearing up quickly.

Sacha - for losing it with poor Autie yesterday. You will know this, but I'll say it anyway - it's very human of you to lose it momentarily, because even the most patient person in the world has a button that their child will know how to find, and sleeping (or lack thereof) can be wearing on the best of us. And it's all how you recover the situation I think, and you're such a great mum that you will have left no lasting mark. I love the creative activities that you do with her, absolutely fantastic to have keepsake artworks that she's done from so early on.

Raels - what a stupid pair of nurses. I'm with everyone else, I reckon that it's worth a complaint, but I know that if it were me I'd probably just think about it & not actually get to it. But on a good note, congrats on being an Auntie again.

Jess - OMG for the chicken pox, and how incompetent of the dr to not pick it up. I hope that you're taking it easy like you should be (well, as much as you can with a 1yo!).

Em - your MCHN needs a good dose of Belly belly I think, to knock some sense into her. I could be wrong, but as far as I know the main thing to be wary of with bottles is to not let them go to sleep with them because of the risk of tooth decay - if they fall asleep on their bottle the milk can pool in their mouth which isn't a good thing. It can also cause ear infections according to the handout I got from my MCHN. But they still need the milk and if it takes a little while longer to transition him to cups then big deal. Personally I don't understand why they get so anal about these things, anyone with 5 seconds experience with kids can see how they all develop at different rates, there is no one size fits all.

Mel - you made me laugh with your advice to Em about opinions - well said! Yay for Jack's glove finally coming, not nice for him to have to wear but good to be working towards recovery.

V - hope Jason is feeling better now. Good on you for the night filling job, you're a hard worker that's for sure. Yum for the pikelets - wish I'd been at your place for lunch.

OK - dinners - I'm mostly still feeding Liam his super vegie mix, which these days is steamed carrots/zucchini/peas/corn, mixed with pureed pumpkin,parsnip,broccoli, cauliflower & beans. Mixed with tuna, or finely diced steak or chicken or lamb chops, with a bone to chew on which is one of his favourites. But I'm starting to feed him spme of our dinners - like Mel, slow cooked casserole dishes work a treat, as does risotto, soups, spag bol.

Sleeps - yep, the kid in my house is also trying to get away with 1 sleep per day, and being really miserable & clingy when he gets his way. I really struggle to get him to sleep in his cot in the afternoon, so usually resort to a catnap in my arms (rarely more than 20 minutes), or I win the battle by going for a walk. I generally look at giving him his morning sleep about 2 to 2 1/2 hours after he wakes up. I find that if it's much more than this his sleep time is usually only 1 cycle rather than 2, and I'd much rather have 2 cycles! His night time bed time is still around 7.30 - 8pm, I find that if he goes down earlier he just wakes up after about 45 minutes & wants more food.

Citrus - not yet. I thought about giving some mandarin, but the ones I bought were a bit dry & I didn't much like the flavour myself, so figured that it wasn't worth the waste.

Well, don't really have much to report. Our visit to the health nurse was relatively uneventful, which was good especially as I was steeling myself for a bit of a lecture about how many BF's Liam still takes each day (usually about 5). But she said nothing, which was good in a way, except that now the b'day party is over & I have to start thinking about going back to work I'm not sure how to get him to wean back to just a couple of feeds. I'm not in a desperate rush, but given his level of addiction just can't visualise how it's going to happen iykwim.

Anyway, that's enough from me, it's taken nearly 2 hours to get this much written cos he's been up & down a couple of times. one more attempt & there'll be a dose of nurofen I think, just in case it's teeth or something.