I cannot possibly catch up!!!!
General consensus seems to be that the 6mths period is tough going. After 6 months of sleep deprivation and general worry, juggling and stress, we are all knackered and disheartened and autumn doesn't help. Never forget, "This too shall pass". And chocolate.
And Nutty, I don't know how you do it, dealing with your wanker of an ex on top of everything else. You are so strong, keep it up!
I'd agree that you shouldn't rush into moving, however much you long to have your family closer to you. Don't give him any ammo he can use against you. And do keep a careful note of everything that he does and says, since he is playing dirty. Once the divorce is finalised you can start looking forwards, but for now you need to focus on the fight currently underway. But it's not my business, really.
My student would be bemused, I imagine, to think his homework provided the title of a MN thread.
Feier, I have begun bathing DS1 and A together, but A sits up straight in the bath (as Boff discovered when she tried to bathe him lying down, and he went ballistic), so it's quite easy. If H can sit up, go for it. Otherwise, I'd perhaps wait a bit until she can, to make it easier.
It's great when you can do it: A splashes like mad, DS1 is very patient about being splashed, and they giggle together crazily. Then I whip A out and dry him while DS1 plays with his toys, and then he gets out and I can supervise drying him.
A is really, really not into food: I offered him soup (spoon and then from a bottle), and compote mixed with petit suisse (sorry about French, never sure what petit suisse are in English). He scowled and refused it all, crying terribly, and then BF'd like a starved creature as soon as he could. And it took me over 2 hrs to get him back to sleep last night; he woke up about 1:30 for a feed and then wouldn't go back to sleep until I gave in and stuck him
back on the boob just before 4am. His two front teeth at the bottom have been bugging him for ages, and are now visible below the gums, but still not through...