heva -"Playing tea parties with my teddy bears?" Isaac sounds like he is doing exactly what Zac was doing a while ago with his sleeps. It seems like you just get thru one issue when another one crops up. If it's any help, the current thing that's working with Zac is to put him down, roll him onto his side, and pat his bum. Sometimes I wedge a rolled up towel behind him to stop him from rolling onto his back and waking up again... Also, apparently freezing will kill any germies - shove them in a plastic bag and in the freezer overnight or for 24 hours.

Naomi - I can't imagine what it must be like looking after two LOs - I'm finding it hard enough with one, so you have my full admiration. You're doing a great job!

ss-storm - I've got the Farex iron enriched for 4-6month olds. It seems nice and smooth, doesn't have any fruit or anything in it.

AFM - seem to be having some similar problems to a few others re feeding. Struggling to get Zac to take a full bottle at one sitting these days. Also, I've been wondering if the increased night wakenings (every 3 hours) are because he's hungry (he certainly downs a bottle pretty quickly then) so therefore he's not getting enough during the day. According to the formula container, at his age he should be having 5 x 240mls, but he's having more like 6 x 180mls. So now I'm going to try to get more into him during the day, but since he doesn't seem particularly interested in feeding atm that will be interesting...

I'm feeling pretty knackered myself. Went back to bed with Z this morning, which was great in terms of having a nap, but we've got mothers' group this arvo and the day is pretty much written off now! ah well, tomorrow's another day!

Took christmas card photos yesterday - Z in a little santa suit. OMG he was sooooo cute :-)