Oh - is that simialar to an enrolled nurse or division 2 nurse (I hate it how each state has a different name for the same thing)! Richelle - I had heard the brown sugar thing - I don't believe she is constipated - just more not pooing as BF babies do. I was also told that BF babies don't get constipated?

Karina I had a think about what you said about changing my diet - I have cut out pretty much all the sweet stuff I was eating - which was a lot of crap - so maybe she isn't pooing unusual, maybe my previous sweet diet was making her poo alot, iykwim. I might try the water tomorrow if we see no poo overnight, i'm reluctant to go the sugar, she doesn't know anything but booby milk, i would imagine that would be really sweet. Maybe I should just eat lots of chocolate again!! lol!! Won't really help with the weight loss for me though will it.

Karina also glad you did get to talk to your DH. I so know what you are saying. The days that DH is in between night shifts so he isn't around for over 36hours, I am exhausted by the night. It is hard work if you have to do it all by yourself. You need that other person to have 10 minutes of your own time. I do not know how single mums do it, my hat goes off to them, I don't think I have the mental stamina.

Sarah glad Ariya was good on the plane. Had to laugh at you thinking Brissie is freezing, it didn't get about 11 degrees here today! It is freezing down here. Just goes to show it is all about what you get used to.

Anyway, must get ready for bed. Have been looking up private health insurance as my rate has gone up as I can no longer get corporate rate whilst i'm on unpaid leave, so annoying - it has gone up by $30 per month!! for just me. But it really does my head in, it's all so confusing and so expensive. Then I have to decide to I just get another single cover without obstetric services (didn't use it anyway) or do I go a family where at least Grace will be covered too. Having said that, at her age there is not a lot that a private hospital will do for her now, different in a couple of years - grrrrr- it does my head in.

Had some good news today - I thought that I still owed some money on my HECS from when I did my nursing degree and I got my statement for tax time and it said I owed nothing - so maybe for the first time in years I might get a tax return!!

This may be coincidental but I drank a glass of activite today (as I said earlier), Grace last fed at 5pm which is not unusual for her (even though I thought she might wake as she has only had 4 feeds today and she usually has 5 but she is still asleep), but my bbs feel fuller than they normally do after that feed - is it possible for it to work so fast? Maybe I am playing mind games with myself?! I suppose if I wake up bursting through the night then I know that it was the drink. Goodnight....