i am always telling DH to let me feed DD before solids - he means well, but he puts her in the high chair while we're cooking and just feeds her - i don't want my supply impacted either! i rarely feel full-ish anymore but i know she's getting plenty as some days she refuses solids and still feeds the same and sleeps the same...

Bella - hope you get some answers re biting. E has not started biting (yet) but i'm dreading it. her latest trick is pinching the sensitive skin under my arms EVERY feed. she gets one warning - then she gets taken off the boob and i give it a minute before putting her back on. third time, she gets her arm moved to a position that is less comfy for her!

Amy - sounds like Natty has had constant presents lately - hopefully she will be ok with someone else being the present recipient today!

AFU - i'm exhausted! Christmas ended up being more full on for DH and I than it should of. all the "we'll bring stuff" offers turned into "we'll dump it on you the night before and you organise it". all the stuff that should have been done just wasn't, so we had to do it all that night and next morning. not a happy mummy! it probably turned out better though - cos i did it myself and no one else messed it up on me! just meant we didn't get to bed til after midnight (not unusual for Christmas eve) and were up before 6 - and E's nap in the morning, when we should have been able to relax - we were organising stuff still. ah well, DH has said there is "no way in hell we're wasting our Christmas Eve next year doing things for Christmas when noone helped us out" - and he's said we're not going into town early - we're going to do what my bro did to us - he didn't rock up til 12 - when he said he'd be here early to help us! at least it meant E got to open some of her presents with just us and wasn't overwhelmed too early - when my bro and SIL turned up with their kids, she had everything dumped on her, and the other kids were impatient with her so they took over... sigh

it sounds like i didn't enjoy Christmas day - but honestly, i had a fantastic day! E was perfect and she had a ball - just having a bad morning this morning (didn't sleep well - stupid nightmares!) and am obviously fixating on the minor negatives of the day! hehehe i've vented now - time to move on!

E didn't get overly spoilt - i dug my heels in and told everyone to be sensible - she doesn't NEEEEEEED heaps of crap! we tried to encourage people to get clothes for 6 months from now, rather than a mass of toys that she won't use. she simply can't use too many toys! and what she did get, we tried to make sure it was multi-use so that she can be creative herself with it. Daddy is loving her blocks, so i think we might need to get more! got a big megablocks pack - 120 pieces, so we thought you'd be able to do a bit with it - i sat down last night and found that over a third of the pieces were single bits instead of the multiple pieces you can build on - so really, there is bugger all you can make with it! ah well, at least it gives us something to suggest to people for her birthday!