Oh Kat, thanks so much for telling me all that! Hopefully Kyson won't have to have it done, but if he does you've made me feel a whole lot better about it! My husband's sons (from his previous marriage) both had it as well. The eldest had heaps of trouble feeding and it took them a while to work out why before he had it snipped, and then when the second boy was born they checked for it and snipped it straight away. DH says it wasn't too traumatic, but it's still scary for me.

Jess, sorry to hear your stitches are causing you grief. I'm so glad that I didn't tear or need to be cut, because even with no stitching I was pretty sore down there. I can't imagine how bad it would have been with tearing as well! I found that it helped to lean all the way forward and put my hands on the floor when I was going to the toilet. That way the "stream" didn't flow back to the ouchy bits. I also would take a jug of warm water with me and pour that over the area afterwards. It stopped any stinging and I figured it was keeping everything nice and clean too so that it could heal faster.

Well it looks like I haven't managed to avoid the germies, grrrrr. I've got the beginnings of a cold. The sore throat, sore neck, headache and the start of an icky nose. I really hope I don't give it to Kyson. If he gets sick I just know that I'll cry about it! I don't EVER want to see him sick!

Oh, a funny (but disgusting) thing happened last night. I was laying on the couch with Kyson laying on top of me and I thought I could feel something damp. Kyson had been laying on his daddy before coming to me, so my first thought was that he must have gotten really warm and sweated a little. So I disregarded it and just kept lying there with him. He had a bit of wind and was farting quite a bit. It wasn't until I went to get up that I discovered that his nappy had come undone on one side and that he had been doing "wet" farts His little jumpsuit was yellow/brown at the back and it had soaked through not only my singlet, but all the way through to my pants and underwear! So gross! And yet, so funny! Poor Kyson didn't find it so funny when we had to clean him up though, and then I had to strip off and clean myself too. Good thing it was time to get into our jimjams anyway