Evening, ladies, I am currently doing my homework aka reading the last 2 weeks on this thread .
So, just in brief and in no particular order, v well done on doula/BF peer support training, babies rolling, dinner parties, tandem feeding (major respect, ladies!), de-hairing, painless periods, potty training, teething, flashing boobs at delivery drivers or all couleurs 
, weaning, swimming, going out, vasectomies, etc etc.
Pixie, how is your DD with her syringe driver now? What is/was she getting through it? Poor thing; how awful that her asthma is that bad. But well done for getting referred to GOSH. Hope she is an awful lot better by now.
Re 'handedness': Joe seems to be equally fond of chewing either of this hands, with lots of dribbles, and occasional sucking (still no soothing-to-sleep sucking though. And no preference to one side or the other. My other three are all very obvisously R handed, but there are lefties in DH's family, so we are surely 'due' somebody who is lefthanded, non? We'll wait and see 
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Re baby swimming: Joe enjoys a bath and does not seem to mind getting splashed too much, but I too balk at the idea of full on dunking him under water. And we have not been to the pool with him yet. Kind of hard to manage to go with the appropriate number of adults for all these under 8s/under 4s.
And PMSL at difference between Butlin's/local pool's weewee quality - Manda, you loon!
I'm an ex-competitive swimmer (v v 'ex', unfit and weak) and am very keen for my kids to become competent swimmers, from a safety point of view mainly, but also because it is great fun and a good way to keep/become fit (If only I listened to my own advice...). DSs1 and 2 are still in Germany 'training' towards their first swimming qualification (the 'Seahorse' award: 25m swimming, jumping in from the side, and picking up a diving toy from 1.20m depth) and very serious they are about it too, aaaww .
Rindercella, I appreciate I am ridiculously late to this, but my condolences and sympathies on the loss of your father. It sounds like he was a lovely father and a much loved man. I do hope you and your mum (and of course the rest of the family) are getting on alright. Glad to hear your DH is getting on well. Good luck with house move. You have my admiration for coping with all that life is throwing at you these last few months and still sounding calm and together. Hat off!
Sleep, IWCAS and anybody else with ishoos: massive sympathies. I have finally caved in and have been doing CC for the last week or os. Joe is 5 months old tomorrow and averaged about 8-9 hours sleep in any 24 hour period (DS1 had been the same and is now a good sleeper although still does not need very much). Last week there was an evening where I had been trying to settle him from about 7.30pm and by 12.30am I was still at it 
: he'd sleep for anything form 5-20min and wake up screaming again, being frantic, distressed and overtired of course. It was just hideous - all of this was still at my parents house in Germany of course. Anyway, I bit the bullet and it pains me to say much as he still does a fair bit of crying before he goes to sleep (now about 15min, at worst it was almost 1 1/2 hours with repeated patting/shooshing/picking up) he has been having much, much better nights ever since. He is now usually asleep by 8.30pm and usually wakes for 1 feed between 3 and 5am, settles v quickly after 20min feed and sleep until 6-7am. I can v happily live with that. Daytime naps however... 
- no joy there, I am afraid. I feel so sorry for him and me and have taken to humming TTSP to the tune of 'Row the boat' which seems to have become our lullaby.