Been  a while since I been here so a quick up date, sasha had her 9 month checks last week he's now 10.47kg and 78cm, she's in the 97th percentile for both height and weight,

The sleeping is going pretty well, and she usually sleeps from 8pm until 5am, where she will have a bottle, and then go back down until 7am and then she's up for the day,  the day sleeps very in length but most days we have 2 x 1.5 hrs so all in all pretty good.

Sasha started crawling last week too, I was so excited to see her finally get on the move, this week she's exploring and makes a bee line for the shelves that hold the DVD's, her new favorite past time is pulling the DVD's off the shelf lol. Sasha's speach is going well and she can say 4 words mum, dad, nanna and no, it's amasing just how she knows how to use no in the right context, usually when you're trying to feed her some solids that she dosn't like she shakes her head and says no, Solids are still a bit of a struggle at times she likes fruit, chicken and meat , but seems to have a distinct dislike to veges and me trying to feed her veges has resulted in many tantrums.

Sasha seems to be going through teething reasonably well, there's only been a couple of days where she's been really grumpy, and I ended up giving her a little bit of pamol to help with the discomfort, she has 6 teeth now and chew on pretty much everything.

i've just started trying to wean sasha off breast milk and onto formula but things haven't gone well, So for now I've decided to concerntrate on getting the solids side of things sorted first and then try again to get her onto formula. So for now I'm still expressing.

I really feel for you ladies who's babies aren't sleeping through the night, I've been really lucky in regards to night wakings other than when the odd night when sasha has been cutting teeth or when she's been sick, sasha has been sleeping through. on average she sleeps from 7.30-8pm until 5am  when I give her a  feed and then back to sleep until 7- 7.30

sasha's still isn't crawling yet but she has found ways of getting around the lounge, time to start baby proofing everything. 

Beena  while since I've visited here so though I'd just pop in for a catch up, and an up date.

 Kazper i feel for you and have a reasonable idea on what you are going through, I don't get stuff all help either and a break is pretty much a  thing of the past, DP's a night worker so I've got to keep sasha quite during the day while he sleeps, and it dosen't help that we only have a tiny 1 bed room flat,  sasha's cot is in the bed room, so I can't really go out side and do things while she's having day sleeps,  I've always got to be close by, so if she wakes up and starts crying I 've got to get her out of the bed room before she wakes DP up.  DP is good with sasha, but when it comes to helping around the house he's bloody useless and leaves everything for me to do. At the moment there' a  huge pile of dirty dishes in the sink they have been there for 3 days I waiting to see it DP will pry his fat arse off the sofa and actually do them,  I guess I'll be doing them tonight once sasha has gone to bed  grrrr.

Do any of you ladies get the strong urge to go out shopping? I have an over wheling urge to go shopping, but been broke as means I don't even have gas money to get to town, I tell you even the thought of window shopping is exciting to me these days, I think I've got cabin fever lol.

 sasha's also at that clingy stage and it's driving me nuts, I'm a very indedent type of person and like my space and the constant demand she is placing on me is taking it's toll on my sanity.  Also Lugging a 10kg baby around is playing hell with my back and my sciatica has come back  . Sasha has 2 teeth I'm wondering if the top ones will be coming through soon as she been getting pretty grumpy the past couple days and trying to fit her whole hand in her mouth, after I rub bonjela on her gums she seems much happier. sasha has been wearing size 1 now for nearly 2 months, so she's getting pretty big, and is wearing the same size clothes as my sisters daughter who's a year older. On a positive note sasha is sleeping really well, she goes to bed around 7.30pm and will sleep throught to 4-6am in the morning, day sleeps are going well too. She's still not crawling and we are are seeing an OT to try and get her to use her arms more,  she has also started doing this bum shuffle thing where she pulls herself along and then face plants the floor, talking to the MIL DP never crawled, he did the bum shuffle and started walking at 14 months, so I'm wondering if sasha might be like her dad in that respect.

oh well I can here a little voice better go before she wakes DP up.