Sherie, LOL @ 'study tools' - unfortunately that's what I relied on to get my project finished and now I have to look the dietician in the eye! Wow about Rafferty's, I've never heard of it, I come from back in the dark old ages when Heinz and Farex were the only products on the shelf LOL! Not that I used them, with the allergy diet and all...Better start paying attention when I go to the shops.

Noni - yay for Ash! You will have to keep an eye on her, saving up all her tricks for when she has an audience LOL playing to the crowds. Farout about your situation with your friend and DP, I can imagine that will always be a sore point.

Arte - I think that ozone hole is over the southern bit of Oz as well, I know that burning feeling very well. Like Sherie I only ever used boiled water in their food, and after we saw the dietician rice milk in small quantities (it's sweet like EBM but nothing harmful in it) but not as a major food source, just as a cooking aid (ie to make little custards, etc) since we didn't do dairy until after 12 months.

Jordie, try not to worry too much about routine/not routine, the important thing is to find a pattern that works for you. It may or may not be flexible around times. Far out at the sleep clinic waiting times, nothing like making a desperate bunch of mothers wait!

Gracie, yep I'm studying librarian. Fully tax deductable LOL! Didn't actually open my books yet, found too many jobs to be done while I was tidying my desk. DH will be home tonight so that'll free up some time in the evenings.

Cally, was the excess coke drinking a reaction to being back at school...or did he have something else in the cans as well LOL not sure what's worse.

Agnes, might be worth reading up about diet and allergy prevention, the only way you will know for sure is if you go on an elimination diet yourself. Best done under the supervision of an allergy specialist or dietician, though. Good idea to see the dr again, ask for a referral if s/he doesn't seem to know what they are talking about.

No chance of going with DH if he goes o/s (I would sooo love to travel the world funded by my DH's employer) but it's not that sort of trip and it's to a really unstable area. We're in the middle of a big dilemma as they have offered him a move back home (!!!) in July and half of me really wants to pack up and go and the other half of me feels its better to wait until the end of the year (complete the year at school, etc). Also we're better off financially here than we would be back home but it's another half of a year with DH largely absent.

Well I hit the jackpot at the Library on Saturday, picked up The Science of Parenting and 100 ways to calm the crying & Sleeping like a baby (pinky Mackay) at the same time! Also got this Vegemite Little Aussie Reader scrapbook, with rhymes and book suggestions and places where you can scrapbook in pictures, etc of your bub enjoying the library or reading together etc. Look out for it everyone, it was Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I think Betty's getting toothies too - she's developed a bottom lip rash and pink cheeks and was quite unsettled last night (got up to partay three times)!