Hello everyone!

Kim – have fun at your reunion! Was that something organised by the hospital? What a good idea.

Shazz – I’m so glad that you had a good time out! Hopefully that gives you some confidence to go out more often with other grown ups!

Tania – oh dear, didn’t realise the visitor situation was quite that bad! Are you in a position to tell them you need a break? Otherwise you’ll go nuts! Yay for the good sleep too!

Vic – no wonder Adam feeds so much – he’s growing fast isn’t he? How are things going at night? And how’s the bf going? Are you still over it?

Sheree – oh dear, that all sounds very confusing. I really hope the appt goes well on Fri. BF seems so much less complicated than ff if that story is anything to go by!

Sara – hooray for the sleep! Routines are so good for them. Even if it doesn’t work all the time immediately you should keep it up because it will put her in good stead for later on. Glad to see that she’s growing well too. Re: the showers… if you can get DH to help you it’s better, but otherwise you can undress yourself and partly undress Briley (except for her nappy), leave her in a safe place, go and get the temp right with the water and then go and pop her in with you. Toby likes to snuggle into me and have the water on his back. It’s not too scary if you organise everything beforehand… give it a try and tell us how it goes.

Well, I went to my first playgroup session today – it was really nice. Charlie had a great time – he didn’t so much play ‘with’ the other kids as ‘next to them’ but I’m sure he’ll come around. It was nice to have some adult company for a change! The local council is doing all these initiatives to get people active in the community and they sent me some stuff about a Parents With Prams walking session so I think I might go to that too. It’s all a bit scary and new, but nothing ventured, nothing gained, right? I’ve got my best friend coming over for dinner tonight, then Mum and friend over for afternoon tea tomorrow, then my brother and almost SIL for dinner tomorrow night, then going into town with DH for breakfast on Friday because he has a late start, then Saturday we’re having a whole heap of people over for DH and his two friends’ combined birthday parties! Crazy. Oh well, it’s good to be busy! Anyway, better go and clean up – my place looks like a brothel atm (well, not literally, but you know what I mean!). Sorry to anyone I missed (I’ve been trying to settle Toby inbetween writing this and it’s hard to keep up!).