Morning girls! I read your posts while I was feeding (usually do) but couldn't reply then, so here I am now!

Adele - have fun at WW tonight - you probably have sweated heaps of weight off, lol!! (seriously, can you do that?) Hope your headache goes away, can you put a cool facewasher on your neck? Maybe keep a supply of frozen facewashers or something.

Jodi, our 10min settling policy is that, once River's put down for the night and starting to look tired (yawns, slow blinking, etc), if he starts crying and it's not his hungry, pooey or in pain cry, but his tired cry - we leave him for 10 mins before going into him. I've found I have to watch the clock, cos Rans would say 'how much time do you think's passed?' and I'd say '5 minutes' and he'd say 'wrong, 1 minute'! So I watch the clock and I'd say about 95% of the time, he's asleep before the time is up!
Sometimes the 10 minutes is up and he's still making little noises but I know if I go in, he'll wake up, so I leave him then too.
And I don't know if Nina has this, but River has a 'next level' cry...there's the tired cry, which I leave, but I go in if he escalates to the cry that says 'I'm angry and working myself up'! So I resettle him and start again. Unless something's good on tv, and then we'll bring him out and let him fall asleep in our arms
Not sure how well that'd work at 4:30 in the morning, since Nina wouldn't be that tired. Could you keep her busy during the day? River slept til 9 this morning (I put him down at 10pm though) but he only grabbed a few catnaps yesterday.
Hope you find something that works for you Jodi, keep us posted on how you're going!

Anna, you're right, it's not like when Xander turns 6 months his gut will suddenly change! It's been slowly changing since birth, and I'm sure that many kids who start solids earlier are fine - my dad's not allergic to anything at all and being bub number 6, I can't imagine my nan had time to exclusively breastfeed him for that long.

Oh well, I was going to type more, but from the lack of chatting from Riv's room, I'm guessing he's asleep - and that means I can have a quick shower! Man shower's are so important to me in hot weather...mmm...cleanliness...
I think I'll wear a dress today. Like I said yesterday, I'm tired of not looking pretty, so I might doll up a bit. Just because I can!
I'm sure I'll be back in today girls - hope you're all enjoying yourself and staying cool! xo