So with Isabel’s nursing strike we’ve all obviously been on tenterhooks lately. Thankfully this seems to be coming to an end… after having a good rant on t’interwebs during a bad morning on Tuesday I threw her up in the sling and started to dance around singing nursery rhymes to get her to sleep. She calmed down and rested her head on my chest and it’s normally not long after this that she drops off. However, instead of carrying on, I decided to risk upsetting her all over again (as the morning couldn’t have got much worse) and so I slipped her out of the carrier and into the cradle hold; instead of screaming at me she opened her mouth to latch :D

We’ve had several good feeds since, including one initiated totally by her after my driving lesson yesterday (btw, I totally ROCK at driving). Still have some feeding issues to overcome but that’s a massive improvement.

Anyway, so we’re getting over that, and then yesterday she was showing signs of diarrhoea (red herring perhaps) and today she’s got chicken pox! There’s a good chance that the two things are related, and that the nursing strike was caused by common “prodromal” symptoms, but whhhhy me. (Emo whining, yes.)

By popular demand (and by popular, I mean that Stephanie asked) I am giving you an update on the vgvvvv …thanks Isabel… on the scintillating chapter of my life known as Operation Nursing Strike. Long and boring story short, she is still striking. There have been numerous very small improvements, but these are ultimately overshadowed… read full entry »

If you follow me on twitter or keep up to date with my tweets via the sidebar you’ll have heard about the current ongoing nursing strike saga. A nursing strike is where a baby goes from several feeds a day to point-blank refusing feeds. This can be for a variety of reasons: teething, oral thrush,… read full entry »