Morning everyone

Entreat - poor little Jack. Hope he is starting to feel a bit better. Make sure you get lots of rest too if possible, no point having a tired baby and a tired mummy. And OMG about bringing contagious children to your house. I would have been furious!

MissyMoo - interesting about the curry. Originally I was going to not eat certain foods to try and eliminate upsetting X but then I read this book that said to eat anything and see if it effects her. So far so good but I must admit I haven't eaten a really spicy curry yet.

Tubbles - hearing about your nappy purchases makes me want to buy more!! I already have a wishlist - hahahhaha.

Smamfa - wii-fit? You are keen! Can you send some of your looking forward to exercise vibes over here please? I have been walking to and from the office (less than a km) on a daily basis but at the end of the day I am exhausted. I have no idea how I am going to ramp up the exercise to get rid of my jelly belly.

Hi to Feu and Seph

Well, you girls are going to think this is crazy but on Tuesday I am having remedial massage.......on my breasts! The lactation consultant recommended it because I still have lumps on the side that had mastitis and it is producing less milk. It isn't bothering me as X drains the lumps at each feed (I am still doing one sided feeding) and I have heaps of milk anyway so no big deal. Anyways, it will sure be interesting! She also suggested I take sage and drink peppermint tea to help reduce my supply. I am holding off on doing this.........having heaps of milk is a problem to me but would be welcomed by others and I am scared to purposely reduce my supply in case it goes the other way. She promised me it won't dry up my milk but I am still scared. What do you guys think?
Wow, can you imagine if it was your job to give boobs "remedial" massages? I gotta tell DP about this, he is going to want a career change! lol. I would be scared that my milk supply would go too far the opposite way too. I was going to start taking fenugreek cos I thought my supply was going, but with my leakage yesterday, I don't think there is a problem any more hehe.

Sorry, I am already looking at what else I can buy next time too. All this talk of MCNs and what other people had made me want to try more! hehe

DS eys where SO blue until a couple of months ago (he is over 2) and now have gone green much to my saddness! They were amazing and although it is a nice green it is not as speccy! DDs eyes are brown already, but we expected that as her hair is so dark.

On food, I switched to lactose free milk on a naturopaths advice and either that or the Brauer or both seems to have had a good effect on DDs digestive issues. She is really a very amiable baby, but BOY does she get ****ed fast if her world is not right! Doesn't cry much but does these little shrill screams till we do what she wants (usually booby or a cuddle!).

Smamfa - I'm getting tired just thinking of exercise! My DH keeps reminding me that I asked him to get me exercising after 6 weeks and I keep telling him to sod off, but he is right... Have to get some fitness back to keep up with 2 munchkins! I asked him the other day if he thought we had gone a bit overboard in the kid department, but he assured me that I wanted 2! LOL
Yeh, I am hopefully going to start exercising by week 6, but at the moment with my motivation, I don't think it'll start for a while (I'll say til the weather gets better for now.. and then might say when it gets cooler when it does get better )

I think you can also have brown eyes that go hazel later in life. Mine were brown growing up but have now gone a hazel colour in my teens. Another friend of mine had her eyes go from brown to hazel when she was about 10 or so, and have now turned green (in her mid 20s)

normally eyes change in the first 6 months. Darker colours tend to be first. Ash was blue until 2 months then turned brown. My sisters were blue and turned green at 6years old! My niece has hazel eyes, they changed recently, she's 1 now. They were green.
Lily has eyes the colour of the ocean.. out to sea colour. Hoping it stays a light colour. I hope they don't go brown, but DP wants them to be brown because he has light eyes.. grass is always greener!

Cheers Feu. I was using the Colic relief, but as that and the chutney are the only two things I've been doing differently lately, I assume the issue was either A) brief infection/tummy bug B) the chutney, or C) the Brauer Colic stuff. I'll be waiting until Jack is really settled, then I'll try him on the Brauer stuff again if he needs it. If it causes the same reaction, I'll be very displeased.

He's been sleeping since I fed him at 11:30... 3.5 hours now. Sometimes he squarks in his sleep, and we roll him over, he farts (or worse! ), and then relaxes.

I found this page: [Ask Anne For Answers To Your Breastfeeding Questions ]
It's an interesting article on how long it takes for food to get into your milk, and the old wives tales.

I think Jack takes in more air when he's crying (and I'm sure , but I also threw out one of his dummys because he was sucking so much air with it. He now uses an Avent dummy & it's a much better shape sucker & plastic bits (aren't I technical with words...).
Thanks for that website, it was a good read, and made me feel better about not altering my diet (too much)