Hi All,

Preg - hope all goes well on your own! I hope you have a well behaved child!! It is hard going on your own, even just having someone to help change a nappy so you have 5 minutes to yourself is heaven!!
Sloane - good to hear that the wind problems are going away! Sam was chucking up lots but I realised that I was holding him in more of a horizontal position when feeding and I think things weren't digesting properly. I held him more at an angle and he hardly chucks up at all now! Such a small thing but it feels good when you have small achievements!!
jasp - it is pretty daunting going back to work. MY husband and I run our own business so I will start back a few days and we can bring him in to the office as well. I have been pumping though for days that I may have to leave him with my mum or my husbands mum but I don't quite know how I will cope with that! I can't imagine leaving him at all at this stage!! I have been introducing a bottle a couple of times a week to get him use to feed from that as well. I will keep waking him at 6.30am and hopefully he will get into that routine soon. Difficult when he is waking at 4/4.30am as it is a short sleep for both of us after that!
bekz - sounds like things are going well for you which is great!
Sam is self settling quite well these days - around 8 times out of 10. He is sort of going around 4 hourly for feeds but sometimes only 3 hourly which is fine. I wake him if he goes 4 hours so that I save his long stint for night time. He is loving being on his play mat and looks like he is trying to roll, but he doesn't follow our voices that well yet. Will ask the nurse at his check up next week if this is okay. I know he can see but he does like looking at other things instead of us!! When he does look at us he stares for a while though!
Does anyone ever use formula occasionally with breast feeding?? Sam is b/f but sometimes on Sat night would be great to have a drink! I feed his last feed at 10pm and don't want him getting any alcohol. I have been giving him stored breast milk in the fridge at this feed and dumping my milk, then I feed him around 4 am and figure this milk would be alright. Someone suggest I couold feed formula occasionally at the feed if I didn't have any expressed but wondered if feeding formula with breast feeding is recommend? Anyone else ever crave a wine or is it just me!! I went the whole 9 months without drinking so would like some pleasure sometimes!!!