Nelly, oh no!! I hope she doesn't need to go to hospital. My dd2 had RSV when she was about nine weeks old and it was very, very scary. I hope it isn't whooping cough, either. Re contraception - we'll be back to our rubber friends until dh gets the all clear. I'm not much in the mood these days. Psychologically I am but I freeze up a bit when dh goes anywhere near the business end. He's very patient. It's hard to do anything with a baby a few feet away, and we're so tired...

Megs, I'm sorry you've been battling the bugs too. We've been pretty lucky this winter, just a few colds. I hope that the scan goes well - will you be looking at splints if that's what it is?

Rayray, I'll give your dh a slap for you, if you like. When you've got a new baby, "getting nothing done" is not the same as "doing nothing"!! I'm getting tons done at the moment only because all the kids are home from school and I'm getting them to walk the baby around in his pram while I madly catch up on all the stuff I can't normally do!!!

Amazed, Thomas isn't anywhere near sleeping through, either. On a good night he goes for four hours between feeds, but mostly it is every two hours. What I am grateful for is that he is in bed at 8pm and asleep, doesn't require settling, and when he has gotten iup for his feeds overnight, he just goes straight back to sleep. And he has reliable sleeps during the day as well, which is wonderful. I'm still getting my two hour naps in the arvo when he goes down.

Kelly, yeah if he isn't bothered by the chucking, you shouldn't be either. Thomas vomits very little but it clearly upsets him - I forgot to give him his Gavison the other night, and boy did I regret it! But my eldest dd used to spew everywhere quite happily.

BK, hope Reuben doesn't vomit again! Once dd1 threw up in her bed and I couldn't see what I was doing and when I turned on the light it was all through her hair, in her *ears*, ergh! And she'd eaten zucchini that night!!!!

Tom seems to have really turned a corner this last week. He is smiling so much now and will smile at you to try to get your attention rather than just responding. He is chatting a lot and coos and gahs and gurgles all the time. His crying has really lessened so that he only really cries now when there is something obviously wrong. I can put him on his mat and he'll play happily for half an hour, or he'll sit in his pram and watch me doing whatever I want to do. He settles himself to sleep and is such a sunny little boy - I'm so relieved!! I know all the books say their crying reaches a peak at six weeks and then slowly declines but the reality makes it feel like it lasts for six months! I've never relaxed and enjoyed any of my babies this much, and I'm just loving it.

Part of me is a bit sad that he is quite clearly not a new baby any more - his head is strong and he is interactive and alert and inquisitive - but it is exciting to see how he is growing up

Oh, and I figured out why Clare is soiling her pants. She did it again on the way home frmo her grandparents the other day. She has been really constipated, and gets really backed up, and then it just comes and she can't control it. So I have to try to increase her fibre. She likes fruit but won't eat much in the way of vegetables, so it's a bit hard to get enough fibre into her.