Cass - LOL, i certainly can't blame the behaviour on grace being too male! I am always having to trim Graces nails, she scratches her face if I don't get onto them straight away. Oh, your poor DH, but funny. My DH got poo squirted at him again this morning! It hit the carpet and the tall boy which is over a metre away! Grace just lies there calmly afterwards as if she is quietly enjoying the mess she just made!

Sonia - good to hear from you. I hope they sort Kaidens eye out soon, poor little thing. At least it isn't bothering him at all. Grace still chucks a bit after a feed too, have learnt not to put good clothes on if going out until about to walk out the door!

Jo - I too get emotional when Grace stares into my eyes, it is so gorgeous, you can just feel that emotional charge and connection between the two of you. The smiles are gorgeous, I can't get enough of them. Grace now makes a lot of noises when we are having play time on the floor - baby talk i call it - and sometimes when she does a massive smile she also lets out a little scream like she is laughing, it is SO cute. We are trying to capture it on the video camera but we are always too slow. We give Grace a massage after her bath just with some J&J bedtime lotion. She loves it and just lies there quietly. We started doing it because we have to massage her R ankle to straighten out the mild talipes that she has and we just did more because it felt weird only massaging a foot! I was never told not to do it too young, i was told it was good but to only do it when they are awake, not asleep as they will wake up and I suppose that is where the overstimulation comes from. Mind you Grace loves to have her clothes off, especially her nappy, I think if it was up to her she wouldn't wear any!

Grace is still fussing during her feeds, especially on the right. At times I have to hold her on so that she keeps sucking to get the letdown, once she gets that she is happy again and feeds well (usually) but i feel horrible having to hold her on, she kicks her legs and flaps her arms around. I have tried expressing after the late feed for the last 2 nights and have really struggled to get any milk out of my right side, i can hand express some out so i know there is milk in there, ijust can't get to it with the pump. I'm finding it really upsetting at night as only a couple of weeks ago i was expressing and getting 70mls a time and now i'm struggling to get 30mls and most of that is from the left. Any suggestions? I tried a warm compress on my breast but it didn't help. I'm worried that if she keeps fussing on the right that it won't get stimulated enough and the milk supply will decrease and then we'll be in trouble. I was going to try expressing at a different time today to see if that helped but Grace didn't want to go down after her feed so I had to put her in the sling and there is no way possible that I could express with her in the sling and we are out tonight. I suppose I will just keep persisting. This will teach me for putting off expressing, but I hate it, my breasts are always tender afterwards, it's not like feeding at all. Oh well, take care.