Nella, hun, if you think any of the arguments might be escalating to violence EVER, call the police. Everytime. You might save a life. Right now, she's pregnant and might feel like she doesn't have any choices, but each time the police come it's an opportunity for her to make a break for it. To get the hell out of there once and for all. It's awful for you and none of us like to live near to that sort of stuff but statistics say it's probably happening in houses on all our streets (except you Trill haha I think you have a private road don't you?).

Nella, try mixing some other things like savoury mince, soup, pasta sauce into some of the mixed or blended veggies that you normally give, to start getting L used to some different flavours/textures. And keep giving the same things over and over, even if they refuse them 10 or more times, eventually they will pick it up and eat it.

Arte - LOL at W saying "no"! We're all going to be hearing that soon.

Rainy, we've got E pretty much having one day sleep now, we go out and do things in the morning, then have a biiiiig morning tea, then she has a sleep. If I linger too long and she's tired, then she may fall asleep in the pram or car. If the morning sleep is too short, then she has another in the later afternoon (like today, we were out at the shops for sleep #1 so she's gone down again). We went thru a patch when she was getting up at 5 or 6 am, I would feed her then pop her back into bed like it was still nighttime and she'd sleep a bit longer.

ETA - glad your arm is feeling better Trill. And most pleased that you're getting such good results from your meds! xx