spring glad you are improving now and managing to get some rest. it must be good to be back with dd. I have so much admiration for people that give blood, I know all the reasons for doing it but have a real phobia of blood tests etc, I often faint and on occassion have got hysterical beforehand 
so just can't bring myself to do it. but I will -nag- remind DH to go instead.
mockingbird I didn't know that about milk donation, I might look into it actually, don't enjoy expressing but it does seem like an amazing thing to do. my friend sadly lost her baby two days after she was born, and she expressed for several weeks which I thought was so amazing. (only stopped because she needed to take anti-d's 
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just taken ds to his first ever barbeque, we took him once he'd gone to sleep but he woke up and enjoyed looking around, and sucked on a piece of cucumber. he looks so longingly at everyones drinks though, I feel mean even though obviously he can't have beer/ wine!
had a job interview today, but feeling really down now as they seemed to really like me but they want someone who can start immediately and I can't (would need to settle ds into a nursery or with a childminder/ nanny). It has already happened once now that i missed out on a job because I couldn't start immediately. I love ds so much and wouldn't swap him for the world, but it is slowly dawning on me how much harder it is to have a career now I have a child. Also feel a bit annoyed that they don't put it as a requirement in their job advert, then I would know not to bother applying argh. Still, I guess I can take some comfort from the fact that after two years out from being a lawyer they didn't just look at my application and chuck it in the bin...