hi girls,

well im finally getting around to doing an update !
we have been having a really tough time with James being really unsettled for the past few weeks, it would start about 1pm and basically continue all night, he slept easily for 2-3hours in the morning but then was really hard to get off to sleep in the afternoon and was quite unsettled overnight. from what i have worked out if we fill him full with a bottle of ebm at lunchtime he sleeps well in the afternoon (2 hours now and going well) and that leads into sleeping well in the night as well (although he still wakes 2-3 hourly for feeds) he goes straight back to sleep again, previously it was taking me about 1.5 hours to settle him after a feed and so i wasnt getting much sleep before he wanted another sleep. if he sleeps badly in the afternoon/evening i know the night is going to be difficult too !
i went to the gp today and got some motilium, never had it before but wanted to try and increase my milk supply so james gets a big feed and will hopefully go longer between them rather than having a little every 2 hours.

so thats my new plan, fingers crossed it works !

Hayley: good boy Ari for sleeping so long !

Luey: let me know how your fresh mums tops go, i was thinking about getting some myself, i read though you usually need a size larger than you would normally get, do you think thats right ?
we have big problems with wind pain too (james was awake with it at 4am!) i got some donnalix today and gave it to him then noticed it contained alcohol (didnt notice when i read it in the store) not thrilled about giving him that but i guess it must be a very small amount and hopefully it will help him. i had egg for dinner last night and that seemed to really affect him.

Bec: hope you are doing well, hows Jake going ? are you still breastfeeding and formula feeding ?

Reenie: i agree with you the area of gosford leavesa lot to be desired, it could be so good with the waterfront there, i hope they improve things there in the next little while, my brother purchased an apartment there overlooking the water opposite the leagues club) it is good for us to go and watch the fireworks over the water !
i work at gosford hospital, in the maternity section and they are always struggling to have enough staff as im sure the rest of the hospital does, i had both my babies there and didnt have a problem but thats probably because im staff !

Andie: yay for Cam going in a baby competition, when he is famous we can say we know him lol

i better leave it there, hopefully i'll be able to keep up a bit more now James is more settled (touch wood it continues tonight as DH is at a work thing for the afternoon evening) so i hope he keeps up the good behaviour.

Melinda