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It wasn't broken. A spatula/fish slice was blocking something. I asked Neil if he'd checked everywhere...!

Anyway, it's all good, I can wash dishes easily again :)

We've bought Aliza some 6-9 month sleepsuits. We don't want to buy her too many clothes now since we're visiting the States in 2 weeks--my mother will buy her stuff, I might see things I don't see here, and with the exchange rate it will be a bt cheaper to shop there. But she's out of her 3-6s so that's that. I think she's just too tall! It's mainly rompers and sleepsuits that are the problem. Dresses aren't too bad. And she's got plenty of room weight wise, her clothes are just too short.

We wanted to get her a high chair as she fusses when we eat or when I'm in the kitchen working and I think it's because she's too low down. Unfortunately, none were suitable yet--from 6 months only. I'd seen one on the Mothercare website that said 'from birth' so I thought there might be one or two that would be OK at this point, but apparently not. Oh well.

Neil got a new toy: digital TV recorder :-) Now we can actually record things and watch them later!

Now you couldn't accuse me of being anti-breastfeeding and I'm all for extended and tandem nursing (if you can of course!) but when someone's BFing _all 4_ kids (no multiple births) and the oldest is 7, I think that's a little extreme! I wonder how she finds time to do anything else.

If we're going to go with the "natural" argument, I'd say that 2-3 is probably the natural weaning point--that's the age at which most people start to lose their ability to digest lactose (the sugar in milk, including human milk). All across mammalian species, children lose the abilty to digest lactose at the end of the weaning period. The ability to digest lactose in adulthood is actually a mutation in certain human populations (basically the ones that consume dairy products--and don't ask me which came first!) So, far from being "natural", super-extended breastfeeding is the opposite and is no more natural than having cows' milk as part of your diet.

I have voted Germany, Neil has stuck with Hungary.

Worryingly the Swedish entry is growing on me.

The UK one, Neil and I agreed, is "catchy--in a bad way".