Hi Girls

It's nice to have some activity in here again!

Sounds like there's a lot of teething going on at the moment Leila is cutting her first tooth at the moment and she's been rather sooky so I feel for you all.

Stevie, glad you are feeling positive about going back to work. I feel for you though, I have really struggled. Mind you I think I just went back to too early. I don't know why I went back so early - a combination of things really. Financial reasons of course but in hindsight I could have stretched my leave out for longer. Because I have always been quite driven I also thought that being a full time SAHM wouldn't agree with me and that I would miss the intellectual stimulation of work and adult company. It's almost funny to think that that's how my mind used to work! Now I'm in a state of almost permanent conflict and am struggling to do everything as well as I would like. It's slowly getting easier though.... slowly slowly

DM I do marketing and corodinate training & development for our national sales force so a bit of a mix of things. Thing is marketing isn't even my bag! I just kind of fell into this job, I have a degree in business with majors in management and human resources and that is where I would rather be so I can see myself looking around for something different in the not too distant future.

Breastfeeding while working is going well. Leila will have 3 bottles while at child care but when i'm at work i'll take 2 lactation breaks and express enough in that time for 3 feeds ready for the next time she goes to child care. Work are happy with this arrangement and its no big deal it only takes me 15-20 minutes to express.

We have started solids too. At first i was a bit unsure and almost gave up on it as I thought she wasn't really into it but then I stopped mixing farex in with everything and realised she actually loves food - just hates farex!

Leila is almost crawling! she gets up on her knees and rocks herself backwards & forwards and sometimes moves backwards. She sits up quite well now too so she is doing really well - very strong and very determined.

Big hello to everyone else, hope you are all well. I look forward to hearing how all the little ones are doing.

Fi x