Dan, Tan, Sarah, Alex - YES!! It would be great to have a huge meet up!! And anyone else in Melbourne who wants to join us - hmmm, by the time next month rocks around hopefully I would have got my ar*e into gear and be organised enough for something like that!!

Ash - best of luck with starting the meds hon. Here's hoping you'll be feeling 100% better before you know it!

Mel - you poor thing!! I hope your back is feeling heaps better but how scary for you! I do use a hand pump (Avent) but really don't get a lot out with hand expressing. That said, I think the motilium is starting to kick in as I've noticed my milk increasing when I express now (yay!) but I will give that a go too!

Dan - some of the best tips I have are from 'Save our Sleep'. Tizzy too recommends two main things - putting the baby down when it's awake, and always putting the baby down where you want it to wake up (ie same principle, so that when it wakes up it doesn't freak out not knowing where it is). Mia has improved 300% in the last week I think - and she's settling (sometimes still crying) within an average of 10-15 minutes and then sleeping usually for a good 1.5-3 hours depending on the time of day/night. And she also gets a good stretch between 10:30-3:30am using that book as a guide as well. I think you're definitely on the right track!!! Her measurements are also really similar to Mia's as well!!

Tan - how exciting! How was the mini-meet? Thanks for the kind words - I think she's cute, but every mother is biased!! hahaaa I know in a few months I will look back at that video and think "What on earth did I record that for?! She's not doing anything!" but the noises she makes are SO CUTE!! It's funny because I think she looks HEAPS like David, but definitely has my nose! I think it depends on the day!

And CUTE photos from today!! hehe I love the side by side shots!

As for our update - we had our MCHN appointment today and I'm feeling SO much better about our feeding. She's definitely put on enough weight and as I knew already, has grown heaps so that is a massive relief. It just seems that for whatever reason, but boobs just don't seem to respond as well to expressing but the MCHN said that she's definitely getting enough milk to put on weight.

So - stats as of today (4w + 3d) are:

4380g weight (average of 260g per week since last fortnight)
55cm length
37cm head circumference

So now feeling heaps better about it all!! Have my first mothers group thing next Wednesday too - has anyone else started theirs yet? What are they like? Mine goes for 6 weeks and then I'm not sure what happens. Do they start up again later or is that it?