Ryatha hope you heal up quickly...that sounds painful! Hope Grace's little bottom starts to get better too... Hayley started getting a bit red in the folds at the top of her legs but I just rubbed some cornflour into it after her bath for a couple of days and it disappeared thankfully!

My mum has been down here for the last week, she went home yesterday. Was so nice having her here, she cooked dinner every night and did all the washing/folding for me it was great! Back to doing it all myself now though...lol. She also flew my nan (her mum) down for a couple of days so that was really good, and she was so excited to meet her new great grandaughter - her first great grandchild! We got a "4 generations of women" photo so that is something quite special.

Hayley is now fully formula fed. My supply was drying up and rather than battle on and spending hours every day expressing I just decided to go formula full time. She was only getting a couple of bottles of EBM every day so was mostly on formula anyway. I do feel a little bit like a failure...thinking maybe if I tried harder or was more motivated...not much I can do about it now except at least I have the experience for number 2 (not that I'm planning on a number 2 for a very long time! Lol).

Hayley is starting to make lots of little noises and funny faces...she is smiling and poking her tongue out and spends usually 2 periods a day between feeds awake. Night time is still a bit of a battle, mostly falls asleep fine in my arms but as soon as she in her cot wakes up again unless she has fallen into a deep sleep in my arms. We put her in our bed after her 3am feed this morning as she wouldn't go back to sleep in her cot and would just cry. Don't want to make a habit of it although it is nice having her in bed with us, but at the time it's just whatever gets you through!

Hope the rest of you and your bubs are going well, better go she is starting to stir (and is quite noisy while she is doing it...lots of grunts and squeaks which crack us up all the time! Lol).