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Sorry question for bowie-thought id ask you in here instead of other thread on how your nursing strike is going with Max did he get better????  Im going through a similar thing with our wee man, hes getting over bronchiolitis so def not feeling the best but point blank refuses boob atm, arching back and screaming throwing head back....... a real battle!!   Not wanting to leave the house once hes 100% til we get this feeding sorted, just wondering if there is light at the end of the tunnel????  Hes not on solids yet.

Yes, my friend did make scones, whipped up a batch of date ones while I was there, served warm with strawberry jam, yum yum, even gave me some to take home!

Very quiet on here today, is everyone hanging out on facebook these days instead?

Good morning, where is everyone today?  Good to have you back Fletch, sounds like you are starting to get on top of Gemma's routine.  Yes another pair of hands is always great, I am really missing my Mum this time around.  I've still only got Dylan on two meals a day (lunch and dinner) but next week I am going to introduce breakfast.  I think I originally introduced solids too soon, he would eat a little and then not want any more but now he is right into eating.  I try not to use the computer when either boy is up either unless its to show them photos or I'm waiting on an email for example.

Well had an interesting experience yesterday with Ethan that I am really  hoping is a once off.  He woke up from his afternoon nap and wandered out to the kitchen where I was just finishing putting a cake together, I explained I just had to get it in the oven and then I'd get his afternoon tea ready.  He seemed fine with that until I went to put the ingrediants away, then he totally lost the plot, started screaming at the top of his voice and went running down the hallway.  Of course, this woke up Dylan who had only been asleep for half an hour!  I eventually calmed down Ethan by bribing him with a lolly and when it became apparent Dylan wasn't going to go back to sleep reluctantly got him up.  Thankfully Dylan happily went down for a later nap. 

Dylan's new face cream is helping a little bit I think.  I am so pleased, every night this week he has gone to sleep straight away at night, slept 6 hours, woke for 1/2 hour feed then back to sleep for another 5 - 6 hours.  Its not quite sleeping through the night but hopefully he might gradually start sleeping 7 then 8 etc, he was doing 9 hours before his execema flared up three months ago so he is capable of sleeping longer!  We are off to visit a friend and her 9 month old baby  later this morning while Ethan is at preschool.  I'd been catching up with this friend every Wednesday morning (Ethan's other preschool morning) but lately we have been at the hospital every Wednesday.  So after a month of not seeing them will be good to finally catch up.  My friend makes really yummy scones so hopefully her little boy had his morning nap for her today and shes made some scones.  She made some the last time I visited but I wasn't able to eat them as was on the dairy free diet at the time so she gave some for me to take home for DH to eat and I very enviously watched him eat them!

Hope everyone has a nice weekend!

Bowie, hooray on Max's improved sleeping and saying his first words, clever boy.

Just a quick post, Dylan has just woken up (he seems to know when I finally get on here, time to wake up). 

Anyway finally got Dylan's blood test results back today and he has a low to moderate allergy to cows and horses, a medium allergy to milk and egg white and a high allergy to peanuts!  So hes on Neocate for the foreseeable future.  However its going to be really hard for Dylan as he gets older and starts to have more "solid" food, hard for us too, I think I'd better throw the peanut butter out now, I can just see Ethan putting peanut butter fingers on Dylan and Dylan licking it off!  Being on the formula hasn't totally got rid of his execema though, its still quite bad on his face so I've been given yet another cream to try and go back to the dr in a week to see if theres been any improvement.  Otherwise, hes thriving on Neocate, has put on lots of weight and is almost sleeping through the night, the past three nights, he woke just once for a feed about 6 hours after going to bed then slept another 6 hours!

Right better go get Dylan's bottle warmed up, after two weeks of bottle feeding him I am getting into the new routine, will miss the bonding time of breastfeeding not to mention the convenience but have to do whats best for his health!  I won't miss the constant expressing, I'm trying the cabbage leaf approach to dry out my supply.