Ash - I'm so thrilled to read about you saying how content you are with life. I'm just so happy for you. Awful about your friend though. Such a hard thing to deal with. I hope you and your DH are coping as best you can. Thanks for the comments on solids not helping get Blake through - I'm really not ready to start Izzy on them yet so good to know it won't help. The lactose intolerance thing is interesting isn't it - can't say just how much of a difference (and how quickly) soy made to Izzy. Oh, and my due date is 28 April.

Tan - so sorry you're not a well chook. Hope you feel lots better soon. I second Ash on the TT Closer to Nature bottles. I use them and Avent ones with Iz but back in the beginning the TT were the only ones she would take.

Kirsten - YAY for Mia taking a bottle. Such an enormous relief when you know that even though you don't necessarily want to race out without your gorgeous girl, if you want to you actually can.

Dan - good luck with your bottle feeding efforts with Olivia. I know it took a while to get Izzy to latch on to the idea that bottles were yummy too, and she started a whole lot younger than Livvy, Mia and Tan's Izzy, so its not surprising its taking all your girls a little longer.

Sarah - yay on your MPM. Great news. Poor Noah's little boy bits though. Maybe its like big boys though - they all look a bit different even though its the same "equipment" I hope any extra swelling goes down quickly though and hopefully its not giving him any pain.

Kelly - you poor love. Its such a struggle. You need to do whatever you feel comfortable doing, without guilt or pressure. And definitely keep massaging those boobies, no matter what you do. I had very painful lumps for quite a while when I stopped BFing.

Danni - hugs to you chicken.

Hayley - that is a gorgeous photo of your little man. He's very cute.

Well, nothing good happening here. Like Tan, I can no longer "gloat" about my gorgeous girl sleeping through at nights. She is being a nightmare - takes hours to get to bed and then wakes at least twice (taking ages to resettle), and then wakes for the day at 6am. During the day she is so clingy and whingy - won't play on her mat, won't go down for a nap if she's awake and if I do manage to get her asleep on my shoulder and then put her down, I'm lucky to get 40 minutes out of her. I think she might be teething - I sort of hope she is because if this is a personality change I don't like it!!! Are there any other bubbies with teeth yet? How long does it take from when they start getting grumpy, really dribbly and all the rest before a little tooth shows itself?