csab - I have found a great health nurse now who isn't concerned at all about Maya. I do still take her to a paed every four months though for a check up because he wants to monitor her closely. He isn't concerned about her but just wants to make sure that she stays on her weight path and doesn't drop down any further. Our next appointment is towards the end of May, so I guess I'll see what he says then.

teru - I ended up looking around until I found a good MCHN who sees Maya for what she is a small, healthy, happy girl who is meeting milestones. So you can shop around for a new MCHN. I am actually going to a different council to see this good MCHN! The passing out sounds scary. Could be PG related?

Georgi - I've always planned to have number 2 next year, so no plans as yet. But I don't know if there will ever be a no.2. It depends on my illness and I have to get off a lot of medications first. So I think the earliest I can even think about it will be next year anyway. Since Maya had the gastro her sleeping hasn't been as good unfortunately. And now I don't know if she'll ever go back to how good it was. But I think she got a UTI after the gastro which hasn't helped her sleeping either!! So before M got sick she was having one nap every day for 2 to 3 hours! (so from about 12.30 to 2.30-3.30). Now she's been only having about an hour. Before being sick she was in bed around 7.30pm and up at 8am. Now she's in bed around 6.30-7pm and up around 7am. I prefer the 8am but I know 7am is still very respectable compared to other kids, so I can't really complain. But its hard to suddenly be getting up an hour earlier every day! And I really miss the extra hour I had to myself during her naps.

So as I said above our latest thing is that we think M has a UTI! After the gastro she kept holding her nappy and crying every so often. I thought it was probably wind pain from the gastro but it just kept going for days afterwards. And she kept waking up many, many times at night and wouldn't have a nap during the day. Finally I thought maybe it was a UTI cos she was holding on to her nappy at the front and crying. Well we took her to a doctor late on Saturday who said she couldn't tell us for sure without a test and our options were 1) go to hospital and wait for hours for a test but get results immediately, 2) get a wee sample and wait till Tuesday for results or 3) give her anti-biotics. I hate the idea of giving anti-biotics without knowing if she really needs them or not, but we chose that option cos it seemed like the most sensible one. Waiting in hospital would have been awful and if it was a UTI waiting till Tuesday would just make it heaps worse. Well I do think it was a UTI because she took a couple of days and then started doing a lot better. Ah well..now I'll never know for sure I guess but at least she does seem to be on the mend from whatever it was!