SS - Hopefully your right re the talking, and he's just focusing on other things. He has been rolling onto his side a fair bit lately, but his arm gets in the way so he stays there a min or two then rolls back. lol.
No news is boring news

Miss E - not oversteppin the mark at all. I totally agree wht you but DF is totally closed to the idea of moving until we have enough money to buy a house Which means we'll be stuck with them for the next 20 bloody years if we keep going the way we are. I keep telling him how much I hate it here and need to get out but he refuses to rent saying it's a waste of money and he wants to save for a house, so far nothing has been saved though...
Hope that your tummy upset was nothing more than suspect food.
Isaac has always been an early waker, between 4 and 6 each day, could it be that Ash has just changed his routine?

Cate - Isaac used to ike tummy time then one day he just hated it and has ever since. He'll occasionally have a day here and there when he'll tollerate it for a little longer. Today he was quite happy there for a whole 5 mins. lol. He even smiled and had a bit of a look around with his head up. I think he's discovered how to prop himself up on his arms in the last couple of days too... maybe we're starting to get somewhere.
I totally agree with the do what works attitude. I figure if it's not broken dont fix it.
as for peeing on himself I laughed so hard when I read that, Isaac wee's on himself at least 2 times a week lol. not so much when I change him becuase I get his new nappy on before he has a chance, it's more when Jesse does it or when MIL takes it upon herself to change him... I like to think it's karma.

Hi everyone else

AFM - Everyday one of the IL's seem to do something that makes me so angry! Last week we bought a bottle of milk to take to DF's grandparents place (a whole other story in itself!)and it didn't get used so we brought it home (they don't drink milk). It ended up staying in the moderately warm car for a few hours and we were going to throw it out but FIL insisted we keep it and put it in the fridge because "it'd be fine" and he'd drink it. Fine, whatever, you want to poison yourself that's your perogative (sp?). Well I overheard this morning that he poured some of the suspect milk in with the fresh milk and didn't tell us! So we've been drinking the most probably off milk for 3 days! He ovbiously thought it'd be ok, but we had already said we didn't trust it and want to drink it, and he went behind our backs and made us drink it anyway! grr...

When we were at DF's grandparents place - who I usually love spending time with - Isaac was really unsettled and refused to go to sleep, because it was a new place? or because it was hot? , and they were full of "advice" I got "he's not even crying, he's just making noise" about 50 times as well as "now you've done it, you picked him up when he cried, now he knows he's got his own way" and "you know you need to talk to him and teach him things" and when I didn't then and there, GMIL picked him up and started talking to him and making animal noises at him, which probably wouldn't have really bothered me too much except for all the other stuff they'd said. I finally snapped at the "now you've done it" comment and said that "he is just a baby and he has no concept of manipulation yet". I didn't yell was just very firm. Actually I suprised myself, if it was anyone else I think I would have done my block. Fine, critisize my parenting style I can handle that, to some extent, but do NOT critisize my child!

I think if it was just one person or one issue at a time I'd probably be fine with coping with it but I'm just getting angrier and more stressed and frustrated by the day. Why can't people just leave us alone to parent in the way we know to be best for us? I realise that differnet generations do it differently but I'm so tired of being given "advice" and being undermined if I don't follow it. For goodness sake this is our child not yours, you had your chance at being a parent now let me have mine!

Had to see my mother the other week, visit's with my mum, generally, are a rather stressful experience. We decided that we'd go to the shopping centre where theres air-con and we could part our seperate ways there. It was pretty normal, she talked rubbish and we half listened so we didn't agree to anything we didn't want to by accident. After about 3 hours with her we decided we couldn't take it anymore and we were going home. So we walked to the exit all the while telling her we're going home and we'd see her next time etc, etc, and when it finally came to the point where we say goodbye she says "well I could come back to your house for a while if you like?" If I wanted you to come back with us I would have invited you! I didn't say it but my goodness how I'd like to. What are you supposed to say to that? It doesn't matter what I say to her she always says "i can help with that" or "that's ok I don't mind if you do that while I'm there" Jesse just told her that his mum was doing some cleaning and didn't want visitors. lol. it was kinda half true She was doing her washing.

In other news ... Isaac's been a bit more active the last couple of days, tolerating tummy time a little bit longer, and he's moving around on the spot. He'll roll onto his side, wriggle around a bit then roll back in a slightly different spot. Did your LO's have trouble with thier arms getting in the way at first? He gets halfway and strains and grunts a little bit then gives up and either stays on his side for a few mins or rolls back onto his back. I think maybe we're finally making some headway, He also did make a couple of more speech like sounds yesterday, by a couple I'm mean about 2, lol, but it's more than I've heard in a few months.

Does anyone else dislike anyone but thier DP or themselves changing thier LO's nappy? Or am I just wierd? I figure I would't want my grandparents or anyone else looking at and touching my genitals, why would my son? It just seems a bit undignified for him to have just anyone touching his bum. If he'd been left with them ie they're babysitting, that'd be different but not when either DF or I am there, It's just not neccesary IMO. WDYT?

Sorry for the me post. Had to let off some steam.