SupaB!!!!!!!!!! Happy happy day, and let's hope the next year is as exciting as the last one (do you think there will be another tv appearance??)!

Noni, what's your method again for giving medicine in a syringe? Dr gave us a script for Zantac which is only a ml at a time but I've read it can taste a bit yucky so we're going to have to go with a squirt-in-quick strategy.

Fianne - sorry to hear about your little meltdown - prolly better you had a little cry to let the stress out though. You are doing a wonderful job and I'm sure Max is thriving in her own way. Remember all babies are different and she will become 'settled' in her own time. Being carried is a need lots of babies have a lot of the time especially when they are still as little as Max. That's why someone invented baby carriers, swings and hammocks!
ETA - just had a look at Max's photos, isn't she beautiful, she has such lovely bright eyes!

I agree it's frustrating when you can't put them down but you will feel better about it if you accept this is the way it is for now (not forever) and just work around it...it's a different pace of life for a few months. (MD's mantra - Just get zen about it)!

Katie - good tip about overtiredness - that's a mistake a lot of new parents make! Good time to strap on the yoda outfit...

Gracie no Lewis will not become clingy and a mummy's boy just from you carrying him a lot at this age, if anything it works the other way - when they are helped to feel more secure when they're little they actually end up more independent and adventurous later on. Read some of Pinky McKay's books if you need some convincing!

Hayley well done on your jewellery bargain, I'd be heading in there to do Christmas shopping if I were you! Good luck with your new pill, it's actually a different type of hormone than other pills so hopefully you won't have any probs with it.