Hello Ladies!

Willow - Thank you I can't help but think that its Michael who is doing all the good work...he's such a wonderful baby, I think I'm just lucky! (see below about the blister-things)

Alison - Wow, thats great you haven't had to get up to Amelia during the night! I"m still getting up for Michael...but to be honest, I dont' really mind. So long as its only once or twice, and just to pop the dummy in. I've had a couple of early mornings where he just won't go back to sleep! They're yucky. Actually, yes MIchael has been sucking on his bottom lip...but I've found its usually a sign that he's starting to get cranky and he makes a groaning type noise at the same time.

Tilda - Good on little Matilda! She's a tough little cookie So glad to hear she is sleeping better now. I tried to get Michael onto a comforter thing...a little taggie blanket thing, but found that if I put him down with it, he'll just play with it instead of going to sleep! So, I've given up on it. I haven't wrapped him since he was about 10 weeks I think, I don't think he would stand for it now...he loves to have his hands up and out!

Suz1 - oh you poor thing - what a day. I think I would have cried too. Hopefully its just a phase, and it was great the other mums were understanding. What happens at a sleep school? I'm not too familiar with it.

AFM - Well, went to see the GP...this is a new GP I haven't seen before (I was all excited to get into this medical centre since my other one closed and they previously weren't taking new patients), anyway not too sure if I"m happy with this GP or not. She had a look at the rash on his cheeks which she said looks like its related to his eczema, which I had already suspected, and just to put sorbelene on it. She looked at his eye and couldn't see any difference in the function of the eye, he was moving it ok and the pupil looked fine. She also looked at the white blisters on his willy...said they're just on the skin so probably they're ok and will disappear in time. But I dunno, she just didn't fill me with confidence. I'm actually thinking of getting a 2nd opinion on both his eye and his willy.

The needles were a bloomin palaver too. I'd booked him in to the same medical centre for his immunisations..but when we got there they said the only had one of the injections there (cos of the storm they lost power and a lot of their "injection stuff"...the word fails me at the mo!). I wish they'd told me earlier! They did say they could give one today and one next week. Pfft. Luckily the immunisation clinic was on the same day anyway so we just drove there and got them done. He screamed for about 30 seconds and then was ok. By the time we got back to the car he'd forgotten all about it! That evening he was fine, his normal self. But it wasn't till about lunchtime the next day I noticed he felt a bit hot, so took his temperature and he had a mild fever of 37.8. He didn't seem too bad, just a bit more whingey than normal and off his food a bit. Not sure if he had this reaction last time as I didn't have my thermometre. But he went to sleep ok and slept like normal at night. Phew!

Went to the BAby & Kids market today, for the first time. Hmm! Wasn't very well organised, it was too small a location so people couldn't take their prams around, it was really cramped too. I got a play gym thing for $10, not bad! But got a shock at some of the prices some people charge! I mean honestly!

Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend