gallstones heh Kim? sounds VERY painful!
has your GP given you list of foods to avoid, to lessen the attacks (if that is possible). ARe you on a waiting list for surgery to have them removed? Good luck for getting them treated.

How are your girls faring at the mo? are they still sick as well?

I went to my Mums Over 30 group today, the main talk was about how their babies get put to bed at 7pm and wake up at 7am the next day - i just said nothing. How they "wouldn't put up with anythign else". I just sat there feelign more and more like a failure.

And someone else had a complain about how her baby had been up UNTIL 10PM the other night. God, what they would have thought of bilby's 4.30am stunts!!! i didn't dare say anything. (yes, me, staying stum - i pick my places - HERE i can say stuff that is real, at the this playgroup, i don't feel safe to say very much at all).

There was also talk about controlled crying, shutting the door for 12 hours and being strong enough not to go back in until morning. One person said, what if you wanted to check on your baby, what if they fell out of the cot, cried so much they vomitted etc - the people talking had no answer. One person said she knew a baby who cried so much, he made himself throw up. A baby could choke on it's own vomit, i'm sure that's a medical possibility.

The one person i feel connected with, in that group, said that she has tried controlled crying, and the longest she lasted was 20 mins, and that she found really hard to consciously ignore her child's distress. That's the way i feel too.

it's midnight and bilby is on her daddy's lap, he's watching a dvd of Firefly, she is in no mood to go to bed.

I am happy to report that the mastitis liquid medication tastes tolerable.

THanks everyone for your kind words. we have got lemons, i just gotta work out how to make lemonade.

Last week, dh applied for two jobs with an internet service provider, he had a 20 min phone interview with them today, and next Tuesday, they want him to come him for two hours, to be put thru a battery of tests. I so hope he gets this job!