Been a couple of weeks since I was on ... quite a few posts to read through!

Jovi's doing much better. She was weighed on Wednesday and is now 3950 grams which is awesome, after just 2 weeks on the bottle. She's drinking 150mL at most feeds now which is good. They're measuring her at only 53.5 cm ... she was recorded as being born at 53cm. So now I'm thinking that maybe the hospital was wrong as she no longer (and hasn't for about 3-4 weeks) fits into 0000 clothes and is into 000. It wouldn't surprise me if the hospital had measured her wrong. When she was born they weighed her at 6 pound 2 ounces, the midwife thought that she felt heavier than that and weighed her on a different scale and she weighed 7 pound 1 ounce (3202 grams).

She has to go for her needles on Tuesday ... that should be a fun day! NOT! She screamed really badly after having her heel ***** done, so I can only imagine what Tuesday will be like. We've already picked up some baby panodol just in case.

She also had the u/s done on her hips this week. The reason my dr wanted it done is that she bends flat out at the hips when you lie her down but thought this might be due to her losing the weight, so wanted her checked. The dr at the u/s said that her left side was completely fine and she has mild displacement in the right hip, but that it was that mild we don't have to do anything special for her, which is great! We were dreading the thought of having to have her in a brace for 6-12 weeks.

Thanks for the comments on Jovi's website. Yes, she is gorgeous and both of us couldn't be prouder. We went to Gosford to visit family over the June long weekend and were mobbed whereever we went! Woolies was the worse. I think we had every single female employee hanging off us gooing and gaaing all over her. Was just as bad when we went and got Charcoal Chicken.

I can't believe July's here already. I'm going back to work (FULLTIME!) on the 1st August. DH will be SAHD which should be interesting.

Obviously circumcision wasn't an issue for us this time around but we had already decided that if it turned out we were having a boy we would definitely get him circumcised. The issue was also brought up at our antenatel classes. As we are a "small" town we were told that our hospital doesn't do it, and that there were only 2 doctors in Bathurst that do it, and only do it in the first 2 weeks. They gave us their names in case we needed it. That's pretty much all that was said.

Name, age and family stats
Beck - 26, DH (Scott) - 28, Jovi - 2 months, + 2 cats Cuddles and Tazz. We live in Central West NSW - Orange

How did you come up with Bub's name?
Scott came up with it ... not surprisingly he's a huge Bon Jovi fan, but I made him find me a meaning (Happy) and an example (one is the girl from "Elf") before I even considered it. Once I did, I fell in love with the name straight away. Everyone we tell loves it too which is great.

Do you have family close by?
Scott has a couple of cousins that live here, but we don't see them unless we go and see them ourselves. Pretty slack really. Other than that, his parents live 2.5 hours away and my parents are about an hour the other side of them.

How many kids do you plan to have?
I can see myself having a few ... I think 4 would be a maximum, but definitely want more. Will wait a couple of years though I think before trying again ... hopefully by then our financial situation will be better also.

Are you BF or FF?
Started off breastfeeding and did that for the first 6 weeks until it was realised that Jovi was no longer thriving. She's now been breastfeeding for a little of 2 weeks ... loving it!

Do you use cloth or disposable nappies?
Started off in disposable as we had bought a huge box before Jovi was born, and were given a few packs. Have just started in the last week and a half to put her in cloth which she's adapting to pretty well ... mainly for financial reasons. The washing is going pretty good ... soak in the bucket over night then wash every morning ... or night depending on the load.

What do you do for a living?
I'm a public servant ... working for the Department of Lands but on maternity leave at the moment. Have to go back shortly which will suck, but we have flexible working hours and I will only be away from her 3.5 hours at a time which is good.