TheBlonde - er.. house needs tidying because cleaner is coming... isn't that why you pay someone??? God knows I should, house is tip. It doesn't help that we finally got rid of the furniture in the little room/nursery the other day but have nothing to replace it with yet so all the bags of baby crap (not literally) that were in there are now in DP's room and the bits of junk and dust are still on the little room floor as DS gives me no chance to put him down and actually do some tidying. Or come on MN, as you may have noticed!
As Kitty said earlier down this thread I am SO glad you lot are around. I worry and worry about Jordi and what he is or isn't doing, then I read this and think thank god, I'm not the only one. The two mums I know who had prem babies too seem to have a routine going whereas I'm still all over the place. He's 14.5 real weeks or six adjusted weeks today.
Mossy - in case you didn't read the old AN thread, congratulations again on Bertie and hang in there with the BFing. Jordi, being very small, had a tiny mouth and it hurt like f* when I was feeding him in hospital. I used to sweat from the pain. I'm still doing it about twice a day and I still get pain, cracked nipples and bleeding, but that's probably my fault for never sorting out the latch properly. Even the times we get it right it still hurts a bit at the start. That is the real secret of motherhood no one tells you I think - how much BFing will hurt. It never occurred to me really beforehand.
On the changing front, Jordi still mostly hates it and screams so I only change him once at night - he generally wakes up twice - and occasionally not at all. That's unless he's done Armageddonappy of course - I'm not that much of a slack mum (yet..). I use cotton wool and water unless it's the big one, then I use wipes first to remove the humoungous amounts of crap from him and then finish with water cos I don't like leaving chemicals on him.
I bought another pram finally, after sending the first one back, and I'm ashamed to admit I went for the Bugaboo. I'm even more ashamed to admit that DP's dad had offered to pay for the pram, and I said it was too expensive for that, so he said he'd pay half, but then sent me a cheque for the whole amount anyway. Now I feel like a parasite. He can afford it but that's not the point. I think that's why I took such a long time to come to the decision because I felt bad admitting I wanted a pram that cost more than our first car did! I still haven't assembled it though, for the same reasons as above, so have been lugging my 11lb plus boy around in the sling still, with corresponding strain to back and shoulders. I do love having him close to me though.
Diva, that coil you've got, is it the one that's got progesterone in it? My sister's just had one like that, and she's put on about five or six pounds, and she's pretty skinny so she notices it quite a bit. Also, have you taken your picture down now? I saw the one of your kids - lovely - Elsie's such a sweetie!! - but couldn't see you.
Can't now remember what everyone else said but on the chocolate front I'd throw in a word for Green and Black's Maya Gold. That kept me going many a time when Jordi was in hospital.