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Hey hey! That's deadly @hermie! Congratulations <3

You get used to the nappies very quick Chris, don't worry

Can be shorter than that - our first refused to wear nappies from when she turned 2, more or less. Lot of wet beds though

It is. We used washable ones for our first, but when the second came along we didn't really have the heart to do all that laundry as well as childminding, so we used compostables instead. They were a bit dearer iirc, but sure we're mad eco-heads Actually now that I think of it, they weren't...

Ah no, christ, not for will over a year. I still bear the emotional scars though

Hoho Counting=a bad idea. I got into the habit of counting bounces for a while, stopped cos it got depressing (2 thousand and one, 2 thousand and 2, ...)

The only thing that always worked to quiet herself was holding her horizontally with her back facing the ground and bouncing. Too much side-to-side movement with rocking chairs, didn't work for us

Oh Billy someone bought us a sling thing that was real useful for a while after the first month or so, Isabelle would go off asleep in it during the day and I could work at the computer with her in it I half suspect we might have been better off long term if we'd tried to get her used to going...

Oh Billy - if you don't have a dishwasher, get one

Lucky egg_ jr. is a girl, wha? Niamh washed it off before feeding anyway Found the article, hadn't heard about it before now http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6318043.stm

FWIW when Mrs. egg_ was having trouble breastfeeding (and she had plenty - open sores on nipples for eight weeks) she found that pumping was just as sore as feeding, and it was impossible to get egg_ jr. to drink from a bottle - so trying to bottle feed was almost as stressful as breastfeeding...

Cook loads of dinners and freeze them. Don't tell anyone you've done this (if you do they won't come over and cook you dinner)