saffi - james' standard room temp is 24. anything less in queensland would constitute child abuse. rotfl. i put socks on him if it gets much below 24 in there. you wait till winter - if he had to hang out in 18-20 he'd just die. i can see why grobag would say that - their bags would be quite hot. jj just hangs out in nappy/singlet/muslin wrap then bunny rug folded in half when it drops much below 24. he loves it warm.

yael - props to you for sticking it up the punters about gender roles. i can dig it.

amelia - so i capitulated and ran out to the chemist last night to buy a couple of dummies. the middy had said big boys like ours with strong sucking reflexes would need them. james has a thing for sucking his fist through muslin, even if it is unsatisfactory to him compared to real boob. so i get home and he crashes out before i get a chance to try the dummy on him, and same this morning. i bought the pigeon ones.

in other news - got home from shops to find DH giving jj his first bottle. awwww... soo cute (and shh, secretly i think they bonded over it but don't tell them). jj had no worries and pigged the lot. granted it was just a 100ml stop-gap feed till i got back (so he could pig more boob) but it worked.

happy days.

so for those who were bottling EBM - how much could you extract from yourselves on the average attempt?