Flippy neck, 6 pages of posts already!!!
Paro, glad you accepted my dare, but disappointed to see the militants avoided it! I might post something inflammatory on it this evening to bump it and see what happens . DP is away again (up your way AberdeenH) so I'll have to find something to amuse myself.
Dummies - B has his to settle to sleep, and sometimes if he wakes I can just put it back and he goes off again. Don't think that it coming out wakes him now, as he can sleep without it, but putting it back helps IYKWIM. He does spit them out through the bars of the crib which is a pain, so I take several to bed. Anyway, I'm going to stick with it for a bit longer, but I know we use it too much during the day, so will be trying to reduce daytime use first.
BDQ - I try and do a dream feed, but I don't think it makes any difference - B wakes almost exactly every 3 hours for a feed. I put him down between 7 and 8pm, so he feeds again around 10.30, 1.30 and 4-5. He is taking less at 1.30 and 5 feeds, if only he would drop one of them, I would be v happy.
Weaning going well so far and B enjoying it I think. I'm only doing baby rice, fruit and veg, and it is all going down. Spent yesterday afternoon steaming, sieving and freezing - strangely satisfying.
Katyjo, I have got a Waterbabies place - hurrah! It's 12.30 on Tuesday, just before your class I think, so maybe we'll see you there.