Can you tell I'm a bit sleepy?
Happy Birthday, Dream's DD! Hope you have a lovely day together. Is there a party?
Scream, that spot thingy sounds very sore and a bit alarming. Hope your independent MW can help. I would be tempted to poke it with a needle, as Purple says, just to see what was in it. 
In the meantime, hot compresses? V 
of your sleep, by the way!
Jaggy, do upload the vampire pic, I want to see! No signs of teeth here yet but is it wrong that I'm hoping for vampire teeth in time for Halloween? Your night sounds rough. I refuse to have M in the bed because I lie rigid and can't relax if she's there. I doze - and then I wake up with a sore back from tension. I have discovered that if I get really tense for any reason my back starts to ache. Must do some core exercises and see if that helps.
Biscuits, M can only sit independently for 5 seconds max before she leans too far in one direction or another. However, she won't practice very often because as soon as I try to put her into a sitting position she tries to stand up. She's started to pull her knees up under herself when she's doing tummy time, though - it's really funny, her fat little bottom comes up (this has so far happened when she's been naked after her bath), but her arms aren't there yet, so she lies with her face in the mat getting frustrated. I read in the MN 6 month update email that babies like to see their mothers crawling around, so I have been putting her down on her tummy and crawling around in front of her like a loon.
Purple, the HV said the gag reflex had to have disappeared before BLW! 
Anyway, I am still trying her on soft finger food, but have started shoveling in a bit of puree as well to try to fill her up so I can get some sleep in vain. Yesterday I had a skim through the Annabel Karmel Weaning book for baby food ideas and she really doesn't like BLW, does she? I still really like the idea, but nothing was going in so I got frustrated. All M has learned so far is that if she drops something, the dog will eat it, which is not a lesson I want her to learn! Last night M had banana and grape bits to gnaw at, followed by banana and grape puree. I tried carrot puree but I didn't boil the carrots for long enough and they made horrible gritty puree that tasted horrible, so unsurprisingly M wouldn't eat it. DH has made some apple and carrot purees and frozen them now.
Can't see any more posts and can't remember yesterday's chat! We met up with some friends who are due to have a baby in late Oct and they were blown away by M! [PSB fatuous grin] They hadn't seen her before - in fact, they're both doctors and the last time we saw the woman was when I went in to Triage with a tiny bit of bleeding and regular BH at about 32 weeks. She was the on-call doctor then, which was great. She was saying she'd been in hospital for 4 days with quite a lot of bleeding last week (at 32+4) - it brought it all back, how stressful pg is. Maybe I'm not ready for number 3 just yet after all.
We moved all the living room furniture around last night when M was in bed and she looked so surprised when she came through this morning! But it's good, the computer desk has a proper space now and the bookcases aren't so crammed into a corner. Still, moving bloody cheap Argos and Ikea bookcases is an exercise in frustration - the bloody things kept bending like rhomboids (do I mean rhomboids or parallelograms?) instead of moving, and the backs kept falling off.