Happy New Year Everyone!

Tammie, great to see you again! Hope you and little Eli are doing well.

Good on you to everyone who made it to midnight!! I sort of did but not by choice... our guests finally left NYE and we were absolutely exhausted, had planned to stay up or even go and watch the fireworks but we couldn't get off the couch I think i went to bed at about 10 but then some silly person started playing with fireworks in the estate where we live at around midnight and the dog next door went crazy and spent over an hour trying to climb the fence (owners were out) so that woke me up and kept me up for a while

Rach, glad Luck is settled and sleeping well. He does well to drink 180mls at a time - what a little champion! I don't know how I will feel when I have my last baby but I imagine it would be hard to let go of everything, maybe you should leave the basinette filled with toys for a while and then when you are ready you can put it away?

AFM well ladies it is a very difficult day for me.... my little girl is having her first day at child care I'm going back to work part time at the start of Feb but due to the nature of child care and limited places etc there was a vacancy now which I had to take in order to have her there from Feb. I'm looking at it as a way to gently ease us both into it. Because I'm not actually at work yet she doesn't have to stay in there all day so I'll just leave her there for about 3 hours today and see how she goes. if she has a sleep and takes the bottle happily enough then I will feel more comfortable about it. BUT she is just so tiny! She's only 9 weeks old and I feel like such a terrible mother - I don't want to dump her in child care - I want to look after her myself, she is my baby!!! Unfortunately though, due to financial reasons I have to return to work. I'm so sad and angry and frustrated at my situation