Miss E- Hope Ash doesn't catch the cold! We have been lucky to escape any sickness here too so far.
Hayley was fine after her needles. She was a bit grizzly, but who knows if that was due to the needles or teeth, or she has also been a bit constipated so it could have been that too as she was mostly her usual self just had a few grumpy moments!

We had a trip to the doctor on Saturday...she had been a bit constipated for a few days, I'd tried giving her more water and giving her stewed apples/pears instead of rice cereal but it wasn't helping and she was getting worse. Friday night when I put her to bed she started screaming, she was trying to do a poo..it must have hurt her so much I don't think I've heard her cry like that before. There was a bit of blood when I wiped her so I thought I'd take her to the dr just to get her checked out...if there was no blood I probably wouldn't have been so worried. Fat lot of help he was...apart from the fact I could hardly understand a word he was saying...he gave me a prescription for a cream that's like a local anaesthetic/lubricant...I didn't get it filled out though as I saw in the info on his screen that it hasnt been used a lot in children so they don't know the side effects..and that it has to go right inside, I didn't want to cause anymore distress or trauma than she was already going through! Got some prune juice for her on Sunday and she loved it! Lol i thought she would refuse to drink it...then MIL is like dont give her prune juice, i found this article online that says not to give it to babies as it has a bowel irritant... Well everything else I read suggested using it...
Anyway I think she is getting better, still getting one little kind of hard bit everytime she poos but it's nowhere near as bad. We changed to step 2 formula last week so I think that's what caused it...hopefully her little body is getting used to it now. She doesn't seem to want to drink much though, she only completely finishes one or two bottles a day, the rest are all only half or three quarters eaten..depressing- I hate having to throw out so much formula!

She also had her 6 month check up, now weighs 8.7kg (no wonder my arms feel like they are going to fall off carrying her around sometimes!) is 70.5cm long and HC is about 43.5cm (I think..cant remember that one. lol). She is very tall for her age, just off the growth charts, so I'm guessing she isn't going to take after me in the height (or should that be short ) department.

Cate- sounds like you had a successful day yesterday! What methods do they use? (i.e. CC or 'gentle' methods?).

gotta go..someone is awake. we are back to 30-40min sleeps during the day and the time goes so quickly it feels like she is only asleep for 10 mins!