EYM, do you want me to post your nursery comments in a new thread? (Not that I have special MN powers but as an IT professional I pride myself on my ability to do links and whatnot!) Still, all good advice, if I was putting ds in nursery I would definitely want to know that his environment was going to be tailored to him, and sensitive to what he needs. I must say, it must be a bloody nightmare running a baby room, esp with 1 carer to 3 little monsters, how do you manage to keep them all happy at the same time? Imagine having triplets, good god.
Anyway, glad you all found my falling over story amusing, I am perfectly fine so take all the amusement you want, particularly you giddy with the being up with dd2 all night.
Bubb - great news about your mum, phew! As to white shirt, any of the online stores any good? If not, how about M&S, BhS...
Re: food intolerances, I am basically just going with the 'no wheat or dairy before 8 months' approach. I prob won't introduce meat before then either, as I do want to take the food introduction slowly (although as you say, Tea, a few days per food, not two flipping weeks a la Baby Whisperer). FWIW, I reckon ds would eat a rusk (gluten free, natch, as my MIL would hunt me down and kill me if I offered him a wheaty one, she is convinced that dh's probs stem from being given wheat from 3-4 months). He would just suck on it til it was gone. If your ds doesn't seem keen, I would keep to the fruit & veg purees for now, I guess you can make them progressively more lumpy?
I'd just make sure you introduce new stuff slowly, so you can see what effect it's having on his little tummy.
Interestingly (well, if you like that sort of thing) there was a study recently that for the children of Coeliacs it seemed to be just as bad to delay introducing wheat beyond 7 months as it was to introduce it before 6 months. Here it is (Actually it says before 4 months, tsk tsk!)
Tea - I do dance about like a fool to amuse ds, must re-watch The Office to see if I am imitating David Brent. I sincerely hope not, my usual role model is Frida out of ABBA (She was a bit of a groover in her day, probably still is). Also I'm a bit fan of Strictly Come Dancing, so have been treating ds to some choice moves in the last few weeks, as you can imagine.