Hey Hoody - sorry to hear about your feeding issues. Failure to Thrive is not something any parent wants to hear, no wonder you are stressed! This is only going to put more pressure on you right when you need to be relaxed. Glad to hear your MCHN is really helping, it pays to have as many allies as you can. Good on you for telling your GP where to go - it is so easy for them to just take the easy option out. I am totally in the school of thought that says "whatever is BEST for baby" and sometimes that actually is formula feeding. But not until you are comletely satisfied that this is the BEST option for you and your bub. You are doing marvellously to hang in there and trying all the options. You have definitely NOT failed because you are trying your best.

That goes for you too Twinsister - I think you only fail if you give up all together and just give them cows milk! BF is best, but FF is not too far behind, and lets face it, in the "olden days" before formula, there was always a lady in the village who was lactating and bubs would get the milk from her (celebrities still use wet nurses), so it is nowhere near as "natural" as they say it should be.

Suse - thanks for your comments re my birth story

Twinsister - I tried looking up your birth story but couldn't find it?

As for us - DS still has bad days, but it just seems we are constantly adjusting to these changes. He stays up much longer now (2.5 hours) before getting grumpy, but then will only sleep for an hour before waking up and being a bit grumpy again. I think he is getting over-tired and I should put him down after 2 hours max. He is now waking at 5 am in the morning for a feed and will stay up for an hour before falling asleep again with me in the bed. I have tried re-introducing a dream-feed, but he is so sound asleep that he is just not interested. I will persevere though because while I didn't mind getting up at 6.30 with him (DH gets up for work then anyway) I certainly don't want to be getting up at 5! AND once daylight savings finishes, it will be 4 in the morning

Anyhoo, all in all things are good. Have a great weekend!

PS I have posted my birth story if anyone is interested.