Purple It will all be OK. You can do this. Thank goodness for modern medicine, eh?
Stuff fans, I am currently topless in front of our portable air conditioning unit. Yesterday I drove to Norwich and back in a car without aircon, with Felix and DS1 in there as well, and I thought we were going to DIE!! It must have been 40 degrees in the car. Suffice it to say that the car is going to the garage tomorrow for a very expensive aircon repair.
I went to the hospital for physio today, and the man did various manipulations and so on, and things do feel better because of it. I have to go every week and also start some special exercises tomorrow. The thing I like is that he seems thoroughly committed to getting me better. My secret back up plan is that if this fails, I will become a yoga teacher and by giving up a sedentary job I will get a new lease of life. However having trained to be a Boffin for 10 years it would be a real shame to have to do this 'cos actually I am quite good at the Boffin stuff really.
Re: food. Don't bother giving them solids before 5-6 months because they only spit the stuff out anyway. When DD was little they said we should wean at about 4 months, and frankly it was a total waste of time, because I spent ages pureeing lovely things only to end up chucking most of it in the bin. I think there is a certain logic in waiting until a)they have some teeth and b)they start trying to grab what you are eating, as this to me seems to indicate a suitable developmental level. FWIW I have weaned my others later rather than earlier and all mine eat very well, had no problems with lumps, eat their greens and so on. I start with a spoon of baby rice, then onto mashed up banana, pureed apple, and after that mashed potato and carrot. Cottage cheese comes next mixed into the potato and carrot, and then yoghurt into the apple puree. Then gradually we open things up to cheese, meat and fish, and wierd veg. By a year I am basically mushing up family meals (we don't use salt much in cooking) and shovelling that in them. I was given a teeny little food processor for DS2 and it was very useful, more so than the Mouli Legumes I brought back from France to feed the others with.