Finally have the time to post (I think!) while Lacie is napping in the sling.

M2W - Lacie takes about an hour to feed and resettle of a night, mostly because its taking ages to burp her at the moment. I've learnt now after being puked on so many times that I really have to make her burp despite her complaining or falling asleep, so its taking a while to get her back down again. I have a sleepy wrap sling, which I believe is the same as a hug a bub? I love it, it's fantastic for when I take her out shopping or anything, she falls asleep almost instantly in it.

shell - fantastic idea to have a nap on the couch with bub in the sling, I will remember that in case I need to use that trick!

Jandals - I hope you had a better nights sleep last night. I don't think I can offer any advice, except hang in there and get as much sleep as you can at other times.

thrilled - I've only woken Lacie a couple of times for a feed, and thats when she's gone about 4 hours during the day and I know if I don't wake her she'll scream the house down when she does wake up. Otherwise I let her decide when she wants to eat!

QB - I understand you on the guilt thing, I have times when I feel so awful about giving Lacie formula. I fed her in public for the first time a few days ago and was sure everyone was looking down their noses at me for bottlefeeding. I know they weren't really, and I know that she needed the formula as she wasn't gaining weight or getting many wet nappies but it is hard to not feel guilty about it.

Lou - I'm glad to hear Sophie is better now. The lumbar puncture must have been awful for you, especially on such a tiny person. I can honestly say I won't mind if I never see that waiting room again, lol! I think some of the staff really need a break to get their attitudes back in the positive. I know they are always short staffed there so its hard when you're tired to not be grumpy, but the patients have got to come first, especially in somewhere like maternity.

Okay I think thats me pretty well caught up! Things here are going quite well. Lacie has started sleeping longer overnight, we generally get a 5 hour sleep with a feed about 2am, and then she settles about 3am and sleeps for about 3 hours. The first time she slept for 5 hours I woke up panicking thinking there must have been something wrong as it was so unexpected. DF and I had a great weekend with her as she's starting doing all sorts of fun things like reaching for objects and smiling, and we've discovered she absolutely loves naked time. I'm trying to give her as much of that as possible, so long as the house is warm enough, by giving her a bedtime massage each night.

Lacie had her first physio appointment last week and they are really happy with how her collarbone has healed up. They thought she'd have no movement in that arm but its fine, you can't even tell she had the injury except for a lump where the bone has healed and she has slightly decreased grip ability in that hand which we are working on.

Has anyone joined a mums group yet? I've joined one which starts at the beginning of May, I'm starting to really look forward to it as it will be nice to hang out with other mums and for Lacie to have a bit of playtime with other babies.

Sorry its such a long post, has been a while! And sorry if I missed anyone, I hope you're all doing well