gorgeous photos, Connor is such a beautiful boy 
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Happy Easter everyone! Yes, we are having definite changes with sleep here too. To be honest it has always been the biggest challenge for me. Ava still likes to sleep on/near me but we are making slow but steady progress in transitioning her to the cot and without needing to BF to sleep. She can't quite self-soothe which is the biggest problem but at least she is developing more of a routine now. She settles down about 7.30 and will sleep until around 7am waking for around 4 feeds during that time (at least she goes straight back to sleep). During the day she will catnap if we are at home, unless she can sleep on me but if we are out for a walk she can sleep 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Either way, I try to ensure she has about 4 hours of sleep in the day. Her max awake time is 2 hours, but less if she has only had a short nap.
Safe trip back, Bean x
Tooth - will post some new photos when back at my computer. Ava has been poorly this week so not really in the mood for modelling, poor thing. Just a tummy bug but horrible enough. x
Is anyone's LO showing an interest in food? I swear Ava would tuck into a pie and chips if she could! Today we were out at a cafe and a guy on the table next to us had a cream scone. She couldn't take her eyes of it and was visibly drooling and smacking her lips (it did look good
I hope Eliana's weight gain picks back up.
safe travels back to china hun x
very cute! She didn't eat any, I think she more enjoyed the coolness on her gums, but it's definitely a start to her showing interest I think. We'll be doing BLW again so mostly staying away from purées and spoon feeding, I don't think she's quite ready just yet but I'll continue to maybe offer her plain hand held bits of what we eat and see how she gets on. Exciting times, these babes are growing too quickly! Millie is no where as bad, I'm thinking the magic of booby milk for that! It's not nice seeing them poorly though. Last night was not great, she was up a lot with a blocked nose and then she'd wake herself everytime she coughed. I'm hoping tonight isn't as bad but I don't hold out much hope!
I might call a lactation consultant again because I think part of the issue is that she is very distracted. She'll take a sip, unlatch, stare at me, chew her finger, stare at the wall, turn her head, grab my face, try to talk, then take another sip and repeat. I've tried taking her to a dark room and it doesn't seem to help. She'll drink the initial letdown and then gets distracted by everything else. If I pull my shirt down she'll scream for food, then sip again. Her latch also might be a little shallow because she doesn't seem to be swallowing sometimes but when I squeeze with my fingers the milk squirts out. I tried getting more in her mouth but it just makes her angry and she pulls her head back (with my nipple in her mouth...ouchhh). I'm feeding her every 2-3 hours (or sometimes every 1.5 hrs) so I don't think I need to increase the amount of feedings... Anyone else having issues like this? Love her hair!
BLW is a european inspried method, right? People around here mostly look at me like i'm crazy when I mention that, except for a handful of other moms.
love the picture! Re weaning, that was the first time I've ever given her any food and it was purely to see what she'd do with it! She didn't eat it, I think she just liked the coolness of the cucumber on her teething gums. We will be doing BLW too and I don't expect to start for at least another month or so. I'm just following Millie's lead completely, but she is definitely showing signs of being interested in food and watching us all eat. A lot of people here don't know or haven't heard of BLW either actually! People thought I was mad when weaning DD1 
Usually we'd go to my mum's for Easter lunch, but we don't have the car so we just stayed at home. I jokingly mentioned to OH how it was my first Easter with no choccy eggs and the silly man went out in the rain and came back almost two hours later after trying every shop until he found one that was open and bought us eggs (he said he was popping out for cigs). Then he came home and hid them just like when I was a kid. He bought an egg for LO too, but I ate it for her. 
