Hi girls

Steph - hope the packing is going well and I bet you'll love having DH home for six weeks. You'll probably be looking forward to him going back to work after that! Sounds like Cailan is doing all the normal movement things, I can't see why the MCHN would make such a big deal about rolling. Which reminds me, I haven't seen our MCHN since Lucy was about six weeks old. I suppose I should go in for the 6-8 mth check...

Jen - OMG, I hope it's not correct that 2nd babies are bigger in your case!! But well done on the delivery! My BF had a boy 9 lb 14 oz and she only had a couple of puffs of the gas as well. Did you have a long labour? Are you in NQ? I grew up in Townsville.

Hi Kas, hard to believe Liam is already 7 mths old! Lucy will be there next week. I don't know where the time goes...

Well, at our place things are going well. Lucy's cot should arrive this week and she is well and truly ready for it. She was head-butting the top of the cradle after waking up on the weekend. Just as well she sleeps so still or she would have been out of it ages ago. She's happier to have food now, and I made it less runny on the weekend as well. She didn't gag once. I'm thinking of increasing it to two times a day next week. Yesterday she even got fussy right around the time I usually give her food and settled down as soon as she'd eaten, so she's obviously starting to expect it. She hasn't decreased her bf at all that I can tell (my bbs would let me know!). Does anyone know when that starts to happen? Not that I want it to, I'm more than happy to keep feeding her as much as she wants. She's obviously just getting extra calories from the food.

We've had to start shutting her door at night when she goes to sleep or she just won't settle. Too many noises and she thinks she's missing out on something. So the gate is off and the door is shut. She's a real pro at sitting now and she sure does wriggle herself around. And such a chatterbox! I've never heard another baby make so much noise, if it wasn't so funny it would be embarrassing. We were at the shopping centre on Sunday and she's gabbling away in her stroller so loudly that everyone we walked by stopped to look at her.

I've hurt the tendon in my thumb/wrist and I've resorted to wearing a support for it so I don't drop everything (especially the baby!). The physio did some work on it a couple of weeks ago and I thought it was almost better last week, but no good. The support seems to be working though, and for the first time this morning it wasn't killing me when I woke up. It's my right hand too, so a real pain for work.

Hi to everyone else and hope to hear from you all soon!