morning all

ange - red spots aren't red now, they just look like pale bruises. i have been getting the big fella to drain it where possible - he totally knows he's supposed to, so weird. it hurts, but it's definitely not mast. not sure how long it takes to unblock blocked ducts but i'm getting jack of it. it's nice to be building a stash of milk though for mr piggy later on.

amelia - james would kill me with dagger eyes if i waited 4 hours to feed him (unless he was asleep). i just can't see how i could go more than 2.5 hours if he's been awake, or only had a short sleep. maybe that's why he's such a vom-bag. thing is, he regularly sleeps 8 hours in the first stretch at night, and will only do a 10 minute blast on the boob in the middle of the night. i know i have a big supply but i wonder why he needs to feed more in the day.

i mull it over all the time - is it because he's hot and dehydrated? maybe, good excuse to feed. is it because he's a big fella? no, because yours can wait four hours. what do you do to distract him if he's on the make for food but it's only 90 minutes or a couple of hours?

catherine - sucks boo on the road incident. worst nightmare ever. when we got the stroller i got this stern look from dh, "ALWAYS put the brake on whenever you stop" *dagger eyes*. i never forgot. but then, sometimes the stroller tries to get away off the footpath when i'm pushing it, maybe coz i'm a bit of gumby with it. *eye roll*

i wondered what that black strap was for.

yael - you are hardcore. i marvel at how my mum had 9, back in the day when big families were de rigeur and mums were trained to do it properly in school. i am flat out with one. i think it all comes down to support. if you have all that support and community then why not!! makes for great holidays with lots of people.

saffi - unless you wanted to bundle the carp out of a kid and blast the a/c, it would be impossible in a queensland summer to keep a kid at 16-20. i wouldn't want to go into his room. is your a/c in the baby room or drifting in from another room? ours drifts in, so it's easy for me to control because he has a ceiling fan that i can crank up and down to hurry it up (or not). 18 degrees to me = winter and explorer socks. *shudders at the thought of winter on these tiles*