HPL ds also had the sticky eye, we were told it was normal and it would go away. I think he had it for about a week maybe, we just wiped it with a warm cottan eye make up pad thingo as some others have suggested. We didn't add anytihng to the water though. His eye is fine. and WOW great sleeping routine you guys have woohooo!

MamaS so sorry to hear the babymoon is over and I hope you can find a few more days to hang onto. I imagine it would be so much tougher dealing with an older child and a NB

Cas mastitis I hear that is really painful, how are you going now? did you end up with a D&C? One of my questions today was going to be how long do you normally bleed for? I had a 1st degree tear with no stiches and I 'think' the bleeding I am having is from that (every time I do a #2 it seems to get stretched again and there is a bit more blood when I wipe) sorry for and if it's not that, I've thought that maybe I would need a D&C too if the bleeding should have stopped by now??? dh wants to call our OB on Monday to ask the question but I don't think I am having 'that much' bleeding, how much have you had and when should it stop? I have had 3 D&C's in life and I haven't had any problems apart from bowel stuff due to the antibiotics I took after the op, it's much better if they give you antibiotics during/after the op before you wake up then you don't haveto take tablets for 5-7 days.

AnnaBelle enjoy your La La babyland I know I still am

milly Our little one has got bi lateral metatarsals ferrous on both of his feet. It's apparently really common and is caused from bubs being in the same position in the womb with his feet crossed over eachother. I'm not surprised because ever since they started checking his position from 26 weeks at the antenatal visits he was always laying the same way. That's also why I didn't bother with how I was sitting or laying back etc later in the pg because I was pretty confident he wouldn't be breech or move out of his good possy. Anyway we took him to a paediatric physiotherapist when he was 6 days old and he got one foot in a brace (strapping) and the other we were doing manual stretches on but now we have both in a brace casue it's just easier! he'll have them on for about another 5 days and then they should be fixed. They haven't bothered him at all but the no bath thing has bothered us

AFM I think we are going pretty good, it's kinda a case of holding your breath and hoping that the bottom doesn't fall through the cake iykwim he's feeding well, every 2-3 hours I'd say, night time he is sleeping the best waking every 3 hours for a feed, bum change, another comfort feed then back to sleep all og which takes 30-45 minutes. This morning his last sleep was 4 hours and I was so happy about it so hopefully he will have more of those in the future! During the day is the trickiest I think. We are co sleeping at night so he settles really well but during the day he just wants to be near us so sleeping is harder to put him down and walk away without him stirring ... dh has tried out the sling this morning which is working great so far we try to put him down in his phil & ted cocoon so he is still close and he does sleep in there but for less than 2 hours... anyway I hope he gets into a routine soon. My boobies are much better now but still a bit sensitive if I haven't given the girls any air time so as much as possible I have them out and cover them in breast milk when they leak and allow to air dry, the difference in sensitivity is huge. Our cloth nappies are also working really well which I am over the moon about! they are sooooooo cute! I've ended up ordering more of the babybeehinds newborn size covers and I think they will last for a fair while size wise so I'm really happy. dh has got another 3 weeks off work, so don't want him to go back! we had a little trial Friday afternoon/night where he was out for 4 hours, I was kinda dreading it cause that was the time I was finding the toughest emotionally but I'm fine now and bub was perfect. Didn't cry at all even during the nappy changes so I was so grateful that now I will have some confidence when dh goes back to work. We've had a few visitors which has been nice and dh and I have gone crazy taking photos (like all new parents I guess) our bub will think we are the paparazzi