Hi girls,

Beany hope you guys are all ok and coping as best you can

Tilda thanks for the link very interesting. I've become a bit of a hippy mum (as one of my friends referred to me as) I'm very picky with what I feed Harry and things like that reinforce my conviction. Even when you think you're doing the right thing, a natural additive can be just as bad.
I looked into the rafferty's brand, and some other natural no preservative type brands a little a while back, even though they say they have no preservatives etc, they can sometimes have a loop hole. They can say no preservatives if they don't put it in the food, but they sometimes coat the inside of the packaging with it instead, then don't have to disclose it as it's not an ingredient in the food. So you never know with the pre packaged stuff.

How's the weaning going? I can imagine how you're feeling sad, can you keep a feed or two going? Or are you getting too tired with it, specially at night? Different poo's maybe a new food? Could be teething or a change in your milk. If Matilda's happy and healthy I wouldn't worry too much.


Lani How you going? I hope you're working through all the stuff you need to Remember one way or another there is light at the end of the tunnel. You will feel better and happy again

Suzi Oh no stitches! Yay for the steps and wakeboarding.

Rose Hope Liam is more settled with his sleeps now. Harry's been all over the place too and with nightmares, I think some one else mentioned that too.

Alison Work crap still with you hey? Good idea you had about the treadmill to burn off the frustration, go for it! I'm very interested to hear if your clairvoyant is right

BS Glad the stitch went well and that you're feeling pretty good. Gee it's going quickly!

Hannah We dismantled our bed and put the mattress on the floor a month maybe 2 ago. Made a big difference! It's a pitty you can't do the same. Harry's 'bed room' is actually just full of crap at the moment, our bed included. He doesn't sleep in there so I thought bugger it. We've just got our shed back up so I can sort it out soon and get some sort of order happening. Not that it will include him sleeping in there just yet I wouldn't imagine. Does Amelia have a bedroom ( I can't remember sorry) maybe you could convert it to a crap room like us, just until her sleeping habits improve?

Sesame Hope you guys are ok and dry up there!

Hi Carmey and Kanda Hope all is well with you guys.

AFUS Harry has taken a few steps the last couple of days but he's not really aware he's done it so walking is a way off I think. But we finally have some words! Up is the favourite, he even tells me to get 'up' out of bed in the morning He says tick tick tick while he tickle your feet which is cute. He says 'uh oh' and all dogs are 'Di' one of our dogs is Bindi but he can only say Di. He also sort of says 'don't touch' and really tries to say lasagne when he's having it, it's a favourite meal, so he kind of chants la-a-ah. Last night we thought he said Oprah! Of all things, he doesn't even say mummy yet!! He's always liked Oprah's voice so when she was on last night I said 'look it's Oprah' he stopped, looked, and said what sounded a lot like Oprah, twice he hasn't repeated it, so we're not sure lol He's a bit bossy though, when he wants something else to eat he'll do the sign for more food, point to the kitchen and tell me to get up trying to lift me by the arms, cheeky monster
He's not sleeping any better at night, and is very restless. I hardly ever put him in his cot any more even for day sleeps because he moves around so much in his sleep he was hitting his head, legs, feet or arms on the cot and hurting himself, and waking up even more often. So he sleeps on our bed, which is now a mattress on the floor,as I was telling Hannah. Quite often he rolls or crawls off in his sleep and I'll find him on the floor still asleep. I just put a sheet or blanket on him and leave him. It's better than him hurting his head in the cot or me trying to move him back to bed and waking him. Ds2 was like this too, and he still is. He used to fall out of bed even with bed rails. He's fallen off the top bunk when he was between 9 and 12 and didn't really wake up when he did! When he was about 3 I found him asleep on the middle of a stair case not a small stair case either, it was two flights up from the first floor, about 10 or 12 steps each flight, and he was on the second flight up about half way. I took a photo, when we asked him in the morning he had no idea and didn't believe us.

I hope I didn't miss anyone in the persies sorry if I did!!! I'm off to get a wink of sleep before Harry beckons.