Noni, tell your DP someone did a study and they worked out that caring for a baby each day was a full 8 hour job (not including any of the extra housework, etc that you normally do) so ACTUALLY you are working much longer hours than he is. Tell him Marydean said so. You are going to have to be firm and negotiate some extra sleeping time hun or you will get too tired to function and then everyone will suffer. xxx

Renee, I'm am looking forwards to reading your birth story, too tired tonight to give it the full attention it deserves - and I'm sure there's no dramaqueenness about it at all, your birth and your truth is yours to tell however you choose. xxx

Sounds like E has a similar sleeping/waking pattern as Hannah, Jazmum!

OK really just wanted to get on to tell you about a conversation my PILs had today. They were all excited to tell me that there's this breastfeeding cape thingy (it was on ACA on thurs night apparently) that you put around yourself when you're out feeding in public. (Implied that MD CLEARLY should be huddling under a cape when feeding in public )! That went down like a Lead Balloon, I couldn't even think of anything to say so I said nothing at all. I was literally silent in reply. They wanted DH to google it but he moved right along and ignored it completely (yay DH!). I was truly embarrassed actually, we were in my house, I was feeding E at the time, and I kind of felt like I needed to make a justificatory statement like "Actually I believe breastfeeding needs to be more visible in society and that's why I don't hide it" but there was no way of doing that without turning it into a huge conversation and dammit I shouldn't have to justify it anyway! So my eloquent response will be to continue to breastfeed fabulously visibly in public anytime my PILs are around and enjoy watching them SQUIRM! ha!