Hi Girls

Wow it's quiet in here! Except for you Art, keeping our thread on the front page. Good work

Art - more cute pics on FB of your rug rats! They are so adorable. Love that pic of A in the bath with all the bubbles. Too cute for words! I admire you for taking the kids camping - nice one! Sounds lik it was an interesting trip. LOL. We love a bit of camping but not sure that I'll try to tackle it for a while again yet. We were considering it over the Christmas / New Year break but we might get a cabin (with aircon!) instead.

Pooley - Frazer is doing so well! How is he sleeping? Sounds like a dream child! Congrats on the weight loss too. Didn't you feel great at the end of the detox? I definitely did. So weird though consuming only a lemon and syrupy drink for 10 days can do that.

I've got a shrink who I could see again if I need to from when I went through my depression a couple of years ago but I don't feel the need for him to be honest. I'm very open about my feelings these days (my shrink taught me that) and have talked to family, friends and my mothers group about things and feel pretty stable now. Thank god! I still get a bit anxious but I think that's just my personality - being a perfectionist doesn't work that well when you become a mum. I'm learning that, slowly

Kelly - how is Tadhg doing now? Any more unsettled days? We have many days like that - see below. Has the Motillium kicked in yet? You will definitely notice a difference soon. What sort of pump are you using? I was using a hospital grade double pump I hired from the pharmacy. I've taken it back now and have an Avent manual pump which works quite well but I'm considering getting the Medela Swing electric pump as it is faster.

Hi everyone else!

AFU - my inlaws are staying with us at the moment. My MIL means well but is doing my head in! They leave on Sunday so that will be nice. They've only been here for a week but that's been long enough. I'm so sick of the 'advice' my MIL keeps giving me - such as 'put some honey on her dummy'...WTF?! She then challenges me when I tell her that it's not a good idea. Like I said, I'm sure she means well but I just can't handle it any more. She's stressing me out and annoying the hell out of me. For example, she has been talking to me non-stop for the past hour although she knew firstly that I was watching the end of my fave show, Private Practice, and after that I was typing on my lappy. You can see that I'm busy for the moment so please dear MIL, shut up!! Sorry, rant over.

Izzy had her shots last week and screamed her little lungs out which made me cry What a big wuss I am!! She calmed down after about 10 minutes and then just clung to me for dear life. It was so sad but so cute too. She slept so well for the next 24 hours so it wasn't all bad We chatted to our gp about reflux and she didn't want to medicate her until we had done our day stay at Ngala (parenting support centre) to make sure it wasn't just settling issues. Anyway, Izzy was still really upset over the weekend so I took her back to the doctors on Monday and she agreed to try the medication. Woohoo. She is now on a daily dose of Zoton which is basically an antacid. It seems to be helping a bit already and she has slept for 9 hours straight the past two nights! That may just be a coincidence but she definitely doesn't seem to be in as much pain.

So we've had two nights of 9 hour stretches which is fantastic but it means that my day starts at 4.30am. Bugger! I did go to bed at 7.30 last night though so I managed to get almost 9 hours too so I don't mind too much starting the day so early. I guess I'll just have to do that for a while until we can extend her sleep out a little longer. She is asleep again now but in the sling as she still won't settle in her bassinet during the day so I can't go back to bed. Oh well, at least I have my hands free and hopefully we'll learn a few tricks at our stay at Ngala on Monday to help her settle in her bed during the day.

Izzy also saw the chiro yesterday to see if that can help with her reflux and unsettled periods. Her neck is pretty buggered from the vacuum delivery so they said it will make a huge difference to her sleep once it's fixed, which should only take a few sessions. Wish I'd been to see them sooner!!

Right, enough from me. I'll have to wake missy soon for a feed as I have a physio appt this morning. I have done my neck/shoulders from breastfeeding. Who would have thought?! It's from looking down at Izzy and surfing the net on my iPhone. Tragic.