fuzzy - oh dear.. I hope your gastro goes away very quickly. Wow Chloe is growing great! Can babies catch gastro from breastmilk? I suppose all the good antibodies they get from the milk might protect them from it? Hehe how cute getting passport photos done, when do you go to Bali? I'm jealous, and really thinking about starting to plan a trip somewhere next winter.. I think I'm getting the travel bug back again.

Belfie & Wite - I checked out the sleepy wrap, looks so comfy! and it looks like bubs will sleep so well in one, I couldn't help but order one too I got mine from the US website though, and took advantage of the great exchange rates and saved about $20 compared to the Aus sites. I hope it doesn't take too long to get here though. So much cheaper than Hug a Bubs and look the same.

dory - thanks I decided not to meet the nappy lady. It's not worth the risk to Isaac as I haven't been vaccinated against whooping cough yet. Glad to hear Hannah is having a sleepy day, did you try to rest while she slept? I know its hard to do that most of the time though. About expressing, Belfie is probably the best person to ask but just thought I'd add that a midwife told me that milk starts to be produced about 20 minutes after a feed. I don't envy you having to express, I had to do it for a couple of weeks because of the problems we had and it was so exhausting. I've been expressing bits every now and then to freeze, but sometimes I just can't be bothered, and Isaac feeds so frequently I just want to rest my boobs in between feeds. It sounds like you've got the feeding pretty much all sorted now, well done

Belfie - yay for the weight gain! Oh and I've been meaning to say I have huge respect for you being able to express for 12 months.. That really is an achievement, the couple of weeks I did it for really exhausted me.

I can't wait until tomorrow! My mum is coming for the afternoon to take Isaac for a walk and look after him while I SLEEP! She is even going to feed him for me with some of the EBM I've frozen.

I don't know if I've said this in another post already, but David (Isaacs father) has disappeared of facebook! Aargghh. I really want to tell him that he has a son, even if he doesn't want anything to do with him I just want him to know. I want to tell him that Isaac has his eyes and nose, and beautiful black curly hair. He probably has his mouth too, he looks nothing like me. Anyway, I have no idea how to contact him without getting anyone else involved. I don't even have his phone number. I keep thinking about what I'm going to tell Isaac when he's older, it's really upsetting me that I can't even tell him that his father even knows about him. I do have a couple of friends in common with David but it just feels so weird to ask them to pass on a message for me but it looks like that might be what I'll have to do.

Isaac is having longer awake times during the day now, and is waking up every 3 or 4 hours at night, and seems to be around the same times which is great, he seems to be falling into a bit of a pattern. Oh and he cried his first tear today! It was a bit heartbreaking, but there was only one little tear and I kissed it away and cuddled him and he stopped crying after a minute or two. I think he's had a bellyache, lots of squirming and face pulling. He's been lifting his head up a lot more too when he's on his tummy, and I'm sure I've seen a couple of smiles that aren't wind smiles.. so beautiful, but I don't want him to grow and change too quickly. I feel like this time is going to fly.