Jazmum, are you sure you can't remember from the cold or has your brain dropped out permanently like mine? I was just in the "your body after birth" section to post about my complete and ongoing loss of short term memory when I found another post and FORGOT COMPLETELY why I was looking in there. LOL Oh dear, I can't remember words either, I keep saying 'um you know the thingy thing' *sigh*. It doesn't help that I just finished a novel about a man with a brain tumour so now I'm completely paranoid as well as not being able to remember that I've been meaning to google "memory loss after birth".

Re your expressing question. I was so freaked out the first day I tried and got only 40 mls that I decided to leave it a few days before trying again. Since then E is eating more solids and has just learnt how to suck on her cup (big big big WooHoo) and she drank said 40mls of EBM this morning from her sippy cup instead of spitting it all down her front. Funnily enough she did her excited breathing that she does just before she has boobie so she 'knew' what it was. So now I'm feeling like it's not a complete waste of my time persevering with the expressing. I have however decided to drop the notion of expressing in order to cook with the EBM - I'll just be freezing for future drinking, and I'll cook with rice milk instead. Umm what was the question again (I know, long winded reply). Oh yes, best to do it in the morning when your supply is up, but really in practice it will work best when you're relaxed and not under pressure. If you're really tricky you can express one boob while bubs is feeing on the other (helps with the let down) but right now I think I'd need a 3rd hand for that! I really have no clue about the formula but I'm pretty keen to avoid it as we're not going to do dairy until E is closer to 1 yo. Pregpan might have some ideas as she's just started N on it and sounds like it's going pretty well for them.

Ooh ooh ooh - I recognise those gorgeous blue peepers Gracie - that's an excellent picture in the catalogue!

ETA - Noni - Pooh to your GP. I remember when DD1 was born they said babies couldn't smile for real until after the 6-8 week mark and we all know that's not true! I think our babies actually do and say a lot more than we think they do, we're just not always paying attention to the very subtle ways they do it!