Hi Everyone, this has taken me two days to get this post together (lucky I use word to put it together first so I don’t loose it)

Well thankyou everyone for the b’day wishes. Isn’t it funny how Rae and I were born the same day and are now sharing a May mummies thread with our beautiful little girls. Actually I have to say that we lost touch for a couple of years but our pregnancies have brought us back together and I have to say that it was a shame that we did loose contact especially when there are so many similarities between us (such as we both married men named Paul and both got married only a few weeks apart)

My back is on the mend too – thank goodness as I really felt quite hopeless not being able to run around after Isobella. It was so painful. Isobella had been asleep and thought I would do a quick tidy up of the house and decided to do a quick sweep. Half way through sweeping my back was a little sore so I thought I would sit down for a minute and when I did I started to get pains down my leg then Isobella started being real restless so I thought I would put her next to me on the lounge and have a nap myself until she was due for her next feed. Well when we woke up I went to sit up to feed her but realised I couldn’t get up I was stuck! So I fed her lying down and then tried to get up again and sharp pains shot up my back and down my legs. There was no way I was getting up on my own and the phone was too far to reach to call someone. So I had to wait till Paul got home lucky I wasn’t in pain lying on my side. When he got home I told him I was stuck; so he came over a gave me a hand up and as he did I screamed in pain. He went white from my screaming and crying. Also because I had been there so long I was busting to go to the toilet and had to crawl from the lounge room to the toilet while he called my mum to come and look after me as he had to go to work the next day and couldn’t take the day off. I am so grateful that my mum came to help because I couldn’t straighten up at all. I was feeding Izzy bent over and couldn’t even burp her! I am still sore now but atleast I can stand up and carry my daughter around the house.

Not going to be able to do many personals as there was so much for me to catch up on but some one was talking about expressing and having difficulties getting the milk to flow. I have found that if I use a hot face washer and put it around the boob for a minute or two I am able to express better and I even seem to be able to get a bit more than if I didn’t - HTH

Also Lulu I am using the same bottles as you but she doesn’t seem to like them very much so I am going to have a look at getting something different to try. As I went to the Pink concert on Thursday (my first time away from my princess) it was my birthday pressie from DH and she wouldn’t feed without crying and getting very upset (won’t be leaving her again until she feeds from a bottle without any worries but it had been a short notice thing so I didn’t have much time to get her used to the bottle)

T4AA how fantastic was the Pink concert!! I had general admission tickets and I was right up the front only metres away from her. She is a fantastic entertainer and fit too! I couldn’t believe some of the stunts she did. When she swung over the crowd I was almost able to touch her.

Kristen do you use a pump or do you hand express. If you are using a pump try to maybe hand express a little first then use the pump it might help the let down of the milk.

Tan Yay on being able to drive! I keep forgetting about you guys that had the c/s and not driving I think I would have gone crazy if I hadn’t been able to drive.

Ash sorry to hear about the PND and we are all hear when you need us.

Tara I had Isobella measured today and her 6 week stats are 5590g an 59cm long with a HC of 37.9cm

Also Isobella has her days and nights mixed up so finding it a little hard ATM. Am trying to keep her awake through the day but nothing seems to be working she is still awake now better go