Well, I haven't posted for ages but I've been getting the news via email so I've kept up to speed with everyone. With three girls including baby Loralei and a DH that has been away for almost 6 weeks you can understand why I haven't had chance to post?

Loralei is 10 weeks tomorrow! It's amazing how quickly it goes. She was vaccinated last week and has since come down with a snuffly nose and a little cough. My older two have a slight runny nose and cough too but they're fine and can cope with it... IYKWIM. But, with little Loralei, my heart breaks when I hear her trying to breathe with a booger up the back of her airway and the cough is horrid as she goes all red and tears squeeze from her eyes. She has no fever and the cough and snuffle is fairly mild so nothing to worry about but still it's horrible to hear/watch.

On a very positive note, she sleeps wonderfully. She naps during the day with only true wakeful moments for feeding, bum changes and smiles and back to sleep again. I have her in the rocker mostly during the day so she gets used to her sisters being so noisy all the time. At night Loralei generally goes down around 10ish and will wake once for a feed and will be back to sleep within 20 minutes for several hours. Last night was exceptional!! She last fed at 9.30pm was settled and in her cot at 10pm, I woke up at 5am with that dread of is she okay, she was fine of course so I went back to bed. I awoke to her crying/calling me at 6.30am! What a good little baby! This is the longest she has slept/gone between feeds. I had torpedo boobs of course but that is a small price to pay for sleep.

I will add for those that think I'm bragging that like all babies Loralei constantly changes her sleep routine. She will sleep generally for 5-7 hours first sleep at night and then 3 hours next sleep but some nights she will take over an hour to settle and will wake several times during the night which exhausts me no end and I cannot catch up during the day or afternoon as I have two other children here at home full time.

No personals for me at the moment but I will try to get to some of them later. Big HELLO to all of you.