Back again...

Pinny, yep got what you mean now - we've offered water to DD but she doesn't really seem interested yet. Will keep offering it I guess! We started at around the same time, water and solids.

Nai - you sound like you're doing what we're trying to do, milk feed followed by solids a bit later. We're trying to encourage three meals a day too, but over the weekend she had a little cold and wasn't interested in eating much so we're back to trying for 3 regular meals from this week. Prior to that it was kind of when she wanted it...

Really glad to hear it is working well for Miss J and she is sleeping through at night! That is our aim with Isabel, I just can't handle the lack of sleep anymore!

RR - how long was your internet off for??? Was it four weeks? You poor thing

Meg - hope you are feeling a bit more rested today! How did the christening go? Isabel's is in two weeks, I have just done the invites, will post them tomorrow.

To answer your question, Isabel was very well behaved while I was gone, esp considering she was a little sick. DH picked her up at about 1am, he'd been at the bucks night, he resettled her when they got home and she slept til 7.30am

Why can't she punch out a 5.5hr sleep when I am here???

AJP - I know what you mean, I had a minor freak out today when I realised DD is almost six months old! It has gone so fast!!

AFM: Isabel is a champ with solids. She loves her farex in the morning (my sister says she is the only baby she knows who willingly eats farex, plain farex!) and then I give her vegies for lunch, vegies for dinner with some fruit for dessert. She's had pumpkin, sweet potato, carrot, swede, zucchini, broccoli, avocado and pear. So far so good! I just hope it starts to help her sleeping!

On the sleeping front, we have decided to try and eliminate the dummy and the wrapping - with mixed success. She went down for her morning sleep today at 8am with neither dummy nor wrap and didn't even grumble, just went to sleep. By the end of the day however she was ratty and we gave her the dummy. She has settled tonight without the dummy so we'll see how long she sleeps for now.

Hope everyone else is going well. I will be a better buddy and check in more often