Thanks for nice comments about pics - DP put another one up today of Jordi smiling - first recorded-on-camera smile. Diva, it reminded me of the pic of Elsie you had up, which I loved. He had the screaming abdabs this eve, tried putting teething gel on his teeth and after a few minutes he fell asleep. Was it that he was knackered, or was it the anaesthetic in the gel??
Ooh, you cloth nappy people are making me feel guilty. Twice in the past few days I've had poo all up Jordi's back cos the nappy has slipped down a bit and cleaning poo off bodysuit has had me thinking i wouldn't like to be doing cloth nappies, despite my wish to be greener . however, I think if I had more room in the house - ie, somewhere I could soak them - I might try it, but we're short of available space as it is. Those who are using disposables, which ones do you use, and how often do you change them? I do it way less than is recommended by Mothercare anyway .
Mossy - bfing is bloody hard. You are knackered anyway from having a baby, no sleep, emotions and hormones all over the place, incredible responsibility, and then you're trying to feed a baby by a method you can't see, so to speak, which possibly hurts every time you try to do it (it certainly did me!). You can tell your DH obsessing about feeding your child is what happens to new mums, whichever way you are doing it - look at all the posts I did about breast and bottle earlier! The thing is, for men feeding and nearly everything to do with looking after a baby doesn't seem to have the same emotional impact as it does on women IME. Sometimes that's a good thing, most times it's a bad thing when you are the one on the receiving end of comments like "what's wrong with him/her", as if you have psychic insight into a small creature who cannot communicate in any other way apart from crying usually. I really hope LLL helps you. Big hugs.
Morocco - 100ml is brilliant for expressing. Well done you! I would have killed to have got that amount when I was expressing for LO. I never usually got more than 40. I think the most ever was 60 when I had gone for about six hours without doing it. Just out of curiousity, which hospital are you donating the milk to? When Jordi was in SCBU, I asked about a milk bank and they said they had stopped it there because of issues around HIV. I was quite sorry about it, because at the time I would much rather him have had somebody else's breast milk to top mine up than formula, which he needed.
Sponge - since I had the baby, I've had loads of dreams involving transport. I'm always getting trains or buses, or occasionally on the way to the airport. I had a horrible dream the other night, that I was in a hotel with my mum and sister, and we'd gone to a nightclub in the hotel, when suddenly I remember LO was alone in my room. I wanted to go back to the room, but then I fell asleep and woke when it was morning, and didn't know why I'd fallen asleep - I suspected drugs in my drink! Then when I went to find my room, it had physically moved, which apparently rooms in that hotel could do, so the baby had disappeared.... A psychologist wonders - could it be an anxiety dream ?
I really should go to bed, as J is asleep and I had a badish night with him last night - he has forgotten he knows how to sleep for six hours apparently. But I'm on my second glass of wine for the first time in nearly a year!!!