Hayley, if you want to boost her gut flora via yoghurt, it has to be one that contains live cultures in it - like Vaalia or yakult. Any other yoghurt isn't worth a squirt for something like that - still good for you but they don't have live culture. I brought for Alister today some Brauer's Recovery tonic which should work the same as a probiotic. I also brought some probiotics for the older kids and a big tub of vaalia yoghurt LOL - I am so over all the lurgies in this house.

With MIL's I struck gold with mine - it's my own mum that I don't trust. She is an insulin dependent diabetic and can't even look after her own dietary needs properly let alone the kids. Although she has tried to give Alister stuff like chocolate earlier in the piece, I have told her she can't because of his eczema and she doesn't do it now - bit of a porkie but it worked LOL.

Clare, we aren't doing anything over the holidays - am looking forward to be blissfully casual for two weeks LOL. The only thing we have 'booked in' is on the last friday of the holidays, the older two are going to a craft thing at the Library doing decoupage.

I forgot to say earlier too, our library is starting a program called Baby Bounce - like a story time session for babies 12mths and under where you sing rhymes and read stories to them etc. You get a board book for them too and the Librarian said she is going to make up a folder with all the things we do at the sessions in it and you get a new one to add to it each week - sounds really good and it will fit in perfectly with Paige being at preschool on that day.