Hi all,

Fran, nice to see your still around. Cute pici too.

Megan, Xavier sometimes sticks his fingers too far and makes a few gagging noises. We have had a couple of laughs. but they are select. He laughs a little when I pretend to eat his neck, 'cause my hair tickles him.

Nicki, I hope your docs appt goes well. there were only about 5 couples from ours that turned up. I thought it would be less structured into groups and more just general mingling.

Star, good on you stick to your guns. Mum wanted me to invite a couple of people I never see to my wedding, so I let her put them on the list and then took them off later and said no, there is no room we need some more of Nathan's family. With the icing, can you use a different recipe. Or does it mean the liquid crisco? If so thats just vegetable oil and it is in the supermarket with the vegetable oil and has a blue label.

jan I think orange juice, tea and coffee are plenty to offer, after all you don't want soft drinks etc, because you would be wanting to be positive role models for the kids anyway. iykwim.
Besides it's not a restaurant as my mum's voice fly's out of my mouth.

Sascha, I haven't used it yet, but the chemist pointed me towards a sunscreen called toddler invisible zinc. It's actually a 100% zinc cream so it is a barrier rather than a whole bunch of chemicals, bit on the expensive side though. oh and it's not your traditional thick sticky zinc, it's a bit smoother. Insect replant would probably be a bit harder. If your at home, I would try growing a citronella bush, you could also take cuttings and hang them on the pram. Best best is probably have bubs in a pram with a cover on it when your out and about, but I know that can be very impractical.
Xavier has awake time between around 6 and 8ish, when he then has a bit of a top up feed and goes to sleep.
I always express after Xavier has gone to bed each night because I know I have the most time in between feeds. I try to wait 2 hours after he has gone to bed, so around 10pm. I express for the sole purpose of keeping supply going so that my body knows it needs to do it every night, so as much as my boobs will give up I also use it as a time to massage as a preventative to blocked ducts, 'cause sometimes Xavier plays funny buggers during the day.

Veronica, I hope your feeling a little better. Fingers crossed it goes quickly and avaleigh will be fine. You know many people have ended up with accidental surprises even when being carefull Tracey beat me to the preggers question.

Well today we had our first Docs appointment for something other than the I'm a new baby check ups. Xavier has been raspy for a while, but he was fine so I let it be and then yesterday he woke up with quite a cough, and he coughed lots last night too,and was all snotty this morning. so we went to the doc, and it is just a cold, but I could think of nothing worse than if I was wrong and it became more than a cold. But all is good.

Well better go back to him, and pay some attention. The TV only works for so long.