Miss E - I completely sympathise. MIL is down for two days week and stays over night and that drives me insane sometimes! I can't believe you still have people in the house! I would also hate people referring to my child as "the baby". I totally agree that he has a name, it is so impersonal and you would think that relations would use his name! I am so proud of him! Sitting up on his own and starting to crawl! That is so wonderful!
Debbee - sounds like things are going well! It is so amazing the things they are doing and how they are learning. I love it. I agree about the little things they find funny. I was rinsing my mouth with mouthwash the other morning and Sam was sitting up on our bed. I came out of the bathroom just to make sure he was alright and I was gargling in the room and he was laughing so hard. He thought it was so funny. I almost swallowed the mouthwash as I just wanted him to keep laughing!

Jasp and Jessica - Sam had his 6 month check up today, he is 6 1/2 months now and is 7.55kgs. He has slipped from the 50 percentile to the 25th. I was quite shocked as I didn't think he was going to slip that much. I had been feeding him two solid feeds a day with 5 breast feeds. I have just cut out his 10pm feed so its now 4 breast feeds and I didn't think he needed a 3rd solid feed a day but she said go for it. I also have a friend who's 1 year old is only just on 9 kgs. He had real troubles with solids. He doesn't look unhealthy and the doctor is fine with him but just wants to check on him more often. I think if they look healthy they are fine. I am just upping the solids. I am feeding him lots of vegies, baby yoghurt, maybe try fish with good fats and yes avocado.

Jessica - I agree with Miss E, she will do it in her own time. Sam definately isn't ready to hold onto things and stand up. he bears weight on his legs when you hold him but only for short periods of time, he loves pushing off with his legs but there is no way he would be holding onto anything yet. I got told today that you can do some testing thing with the early childhood centre called a UEC or something like that where they put your child through series of tests if you are concerned about their development and they give you a score of how things are tracking? Just a thought.

SS Storm- sounds like things are going well! So funny with the dog! Our dog is starting to get use to Sam but he still a bit funny around kids so we are just taking it slowely! Sam is fascinated by our dog though!!

AFM - 6 month check today, was great apart from him slipping to 25th percentil for weight, I cant believe it. MInd you, Sam doesn't seem to have a stop button with food and I didn't want to feed him too much, but I am obviuosly not feeding him enough! Mind you last night I didn't feed him his 10pm feed (I had slowely bought foward from 10pm to 8pm) and he slept the whole way through without a feed! Lets see how long it lasts!! Bottom two teeth are through, an eye tooth and one front one just poking through now. I am getting nervous about breast feeding!! Sam will now be having 3 solid feeds a day and 4 breast feeds if he continues to not need the 10pm feed. He is babbling all the time now. He doesn't stop! This week he has just taken off with the talking and he is so funny! He just gaggles and gaahs and sounds like he is talking to himself!! He is rolling heaps now too and just starting to push his legs with his bum up which I think is the start of the crawling!! Scary! He is settlilng really well during the days for his sleeps which is great too, except if we are out. Today he missed his middle sleep altogether. Not so good settling in the pram.
It is hard to believe it was 6 months ago we were all starting out on this journey!!
Anyway, got needles next week!