Bella - Arrrrrrgh re losing the post, did you want to cry? I have done that a few times and it is sooooo frustrating! Re the solids and pooping and belly adjusting, I think its very normal. I have had constipation issues on and off with Bailey since on solids and its just a matter of working out which foods their digestive system is ready for and which ones to hold off on - if it helps we have found banana, potato and weetbix a bit unfriendly so far. As far as I understand their digestive systems are still developing at this point so its all trial and error, sounds like you are doing a fab job to me!

BG - Grrrr re people thinking they know best what to feed your baby, but I guess they were only trying to help. While Bailey would have LOVED the mashed veg, we have gone down the traditional baby food route, but with E being so happy with her BLS it wouldn't have seemed appetising to her at all, LOL that they sent you home with it!! My Dad gives Bailey stupid things to eat - crackers (prior to us introducing finger food) and dipped Bailey's dummy in his beer etc. Dad just laughs when I tell him off (which sh*ts me a bit to be honest) and gives me the old "oh it didn't do you any harm" line to which I replied "well it didn't necessarily do us any good either". I lightened the mood by saying "look, I respect how you raised us, after all I'm pretty damn great (sic), but respect that I might have different ideas and let me make these decisions as Bailey's Mummy" - he was pretty happy with that. Sometimes him living in Broome is good (eg otherwise Bailey would have his dummy soaked in honey, be eating peanuts and god knows what else hahahaha). Hugs re your Grandfather - no doubt he knows all about E in his after-life and thinks she is as sweet and adorable as we do!

Hey Cathy - Hope Yassie's first day of high school went well! She looked lovely in the photo's you posted on FB - all your kids are gorgeous We have Bailey on 3 meals - Breakfast at 8am, Lunch at 12pm, Dinner at 5pm (with 4 milk feeds thrown in at approx 630-7am, 1030-11am, 3pm and bedtime). Bailey loves his solids, not so excited about the milk, but never has been keen, even when I was BF'ing. Oh I LOVE Seaworld, I wish I was going with you guys! When we went up in Nov it was my favourite theme park, the Sesame Street Beach ROCKS!! Have the greatest time!

Amy - Hope P's temp is down, and that you get some sleep, I hear ya, last week I was in 'wreck' mode and I remember typing "This too shall pass" and it did - thankgod!! Don't worry about catching up on the persies, after a while you just need to start afresh and enter the convo LOL. Hope all the job hunting is going well too.

Vic - you are so darn creative with your projects. I finished making Baileys pants, but alas they are quite big. The whole point of me making some was so he DIDN'T look like MC Hammer - but they are so baggy he just looks like he has "Hammer-pants' LOL. I have put them away for now, they should fit in a few months, so the last few months of his brace days. I can't be bothered making another pair, the project was harder than I thought, and although apart from my sizing it was a success, the time involved wasn't worth it! I should take a pic and add it to your photo-jects page for a laugh though hehehehe. Good luck with the ILs visit! Hope it all goes well

Jacinta - hows work going? Have you done many shifts yet?

Well we seem to be going well with finger food, our recent convo on what the babies were eating gave me some ideas and I gave Bailey a cruskit - Love it and ate the whole thing, a lamb chop on Australia Day - sucked all the flavour out of it and gummed a bit of the flesh, Watermelon - loved it but very slippery, strips of capsicum and cucumber - picked them up, put it to his mouth, screwed up his face then dropped it to the floor LOL. Still loving toast and rusks. What else should I try? He seems really good with chewing things first, luckily we haven't had any choking issues (yes, I just knocked on wood).

DH suggested that when I am working from home later in the year that I have the MIL over to look after Bailey while I am working, and perhaps they can take him out. I reminded him that I am working from home so MUMMY can spend time with Bailey. I'm really not keen on the idea, I left it at a "We'll see". I think he feels bad as my Mum is our babysitter which I understand, but its not a competition, nor must we keep tabs on equalising time, each relationship is different. My Mum is having Bailey overnight as we have decided to give ourselves a night off - no special occasion, we have been meaning to do it for ages, then all the brace stuff happened, and christmas etc. So anyway I have booked us in for massages, made dinner reservations at our favourite Indian Restaurant, and my mum is super excited, I still feel a little guilty, but I will enjoy it. I miss him when I am away from him even for a few hours, and as I am soon going back to work I feel like I should be making the most of our time, but Mummy and Daddy need some time too! Bailey loves his Nan so he'll be happy as a pig in mud!

Well I just ordered Baileys photo book. I have had to break it down into 0-6 Months, and 6-12 Months as the software I am using wont allow me to add all the extra pages I want (and I am NOT starting again with different software), so anyway, just ordered the 0-6 Month one as they had a special going, I cant wait to see it. I was re-living the first 6 months as I read through it all while spell checking and gosh its amazing how much has happened. How did we survive those sleep deprived first months?

Better go, DH just drove in from band practise so might go say Hello

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