Hi BP, I'm here! Just finished a mountain of ironing so MN is my reward!
BP, your nurse sounds like a bit of a dragon. I'm a real Oilatum hater too, my bath still has a scum line that will not shift from when ds1 was all dry as a baby. I might try almond oil on his dry bits, all the cold weather here is making him a bit crusty!
I've been having a nightmare with ds2's sleeping at the moment. He's okay at night, especially now he's learned to latch himself on! But during the day he is awful, especially in the afternoon. He goes from being fine to being hideously overtired in seconds, it seems and then screams for a good 5-10 minutes before he drops off. It doesn't matter whether he's in my arms, the sling, the cot, the carseat, the pram, he just screams until he's all done then zonks. He then wakes at the slightest noise so I'm up and down the stairs like a yo yo until he finally manages to fall into a deep enough sleep when nothing wakes him. Yesterday afternoon he screamed/slept on and off for 3 hours until I lost the plot and took the 3 of them out for a walk. Ds2 fell asleep at 4pm and woke up at 10pm. I was so frustrated because I knew he was shattered but he just couldn't fall into a deep sleep. Today wasn't as bad so I'm hoping it's just a blip on the road to 3 nice long naps a day [ironic].
Lucy, your ds sounds like my ds1. He was a great big chubster, all squidgy and gorgeous! Ds2 is a real skinny minny in comparison at the same age, considering he was a pound and three quarters bigger at birth.
Weight wise, I'm the same weight as I was pre-pg but I'm a clothes size bigger on my bottom half thanks to the peculiar shape my stomach and hips have become .