hi everyone,

Well Maria asked me to go with her until she found her friends at her first day of high school. I didn't stay very long just long enough to be sure that she would be ok. Now that it has come to the day it feels like my emotions have just switched off I can't feel anything at the moment. I am hoping I will be better this afternoon when she gets home.

 Lexi xxx

When I first signed onto minti this morning until I found that someone was leaving minti because of them having problems with a family member here on minti. This person was someone who participated on minti and enjoyed being here and I enjoyed her being here. It depresses me when really good people leave a really great site because of someone else.

I just really hope that whoever the person is that is still here on minti behaves and participates in a positve and fruitful manner. Otherwise we have lost A really good member for one that is not.

 Lexi xxx

Well we went for the hearring test today and his inner ears are all clear and he can definately hear the louder noises but when it come to the softer noises we are not sure if he could hear them or not. It is possible that he just wasn't co-operating anymore but we are going back in two weeks to try again and see if we can't get a more conclusive result. Thank you all for your kind thoughts and well wishes.

 Lexi xxx

I WON  It is so cool, I can't believe it. THANK YOU to MINTI  and THANK YOU to all of you beautiful Minti people who have congratulated me and left such wonderful comments. I originally first looked at minti because of the competition but found so much more here and I really didn' expect this. All the wonderful people I have met here is why I keep comming back and I am so happy at the moment that I think I might cry. I LOVE YOU ALL Mwahhhh

 Lexi xxx

P.S Zack is going for his hearring test tommorow so wish us good luck please.

The article has been republished and it is great. Please read it and see what you think. It is titled READ AND JUDGE FOR YOURSELF. It is really well written and I think all parents should read the information she has. Her basic idea was right all along it was just the way she wrote it before that was what offended me and others. She has apologized and asked me to read it before she posted it so that she dosn't upset or frighten mothers who have to use formula.

Again PLEASE READ it really is a great article and I am proud to have her on my friends list.

 Lexi xxx

I have gotten the links about the article and I havn't even looked at them yet. The letter she wrote me should be posted as her article, links and all, it made me want to check out the sites and get more information. I didn't feel like I was personally being attacked so I hope she does put it as her article so that others can get the same benefit as I have already and they can make a decision on what could be very important advice.

 Lexi xxx

Well I got a resonse to my letter and she is going to send me the links for information on why she thinks formula is harmful to our children. I have offered her help to rewite the article because if what she says is correct then the information should be given to parents.I personally have never met a formula fed baby that is un well in any way that is not normal but I will read the articles objectively.

Also I have sent her a invite to be my friend and I am hoping that she accepts.

I want to thank you all for your kind words and it is friends like you that keep me here everyday.

Love to you all

To a minti member that I feel I was to harsh on. I really hope that this person understands where I was comming from and also that my comments were not directed at her personally but at the article which I really thought could be harmful to mothers. I feel I should have found another way to express how I feel rather than anger and remembered hurt. I can not find the article now I think it has been removed and I have thanked this person for removing it.

I really hope I have not just been one of those nasty people that makes others want to leave minti.

Any thoughts at all would be greatly appreciated

 Lexi xxx

Some people do not think before they write or say something. I just read an article where a person said that giving formula was harmful to my baby. I have written an article on this already but I feel I have to say it again. BREAST IS NOT ALWAYS BEST.

If you can breast feed then great I did for eighteen months with my eldest and I enjoyed every minute of it. My second Weened herself off the breast and didn't eat anything for three days. Nothing we tried with her worked so in the end we gave her ( doctors orders ) half cows milk half water. My son was not getting a good enough quality milk from me. He was always hungary and so unhappy until I gave him formula.

A very good friend of mine had severe gestational diabeties. She had to inject herself in the stomach with insulin and move to canberra to be near a hospital that could deliver her son safely. Because of her diabeties her son was put into intensive care and she couldn't hold him for over an hour after he was born. When she was able to hold him she did try to breastfeed him. She was pushed and pushed to.

This woman is a first time mum who had a bad pregnancy and she had to worry about her babies life plus on top of that she was being forced to do something that her baby just couldn't do. The nurses gave her son formula in the end and she layed awake with feelings of guilt because she didn't feel like a good mother.

This continued after she went home with people telling her she was a bad mother because she didn't breast feed her son. Both myself and her health nurse gave her information about formula feeding a baby and no where in that information does it say that formula is bad for your baby.

Formula is made with all the nutrients and vitamins that your baby needs and after all people said to her and her fall into PND because of all of it her son and her have the closest bond I have ever seen and her son is completely healthy now.

I just wish people would get there facts straight before they tell a woman she is a bad mother for not breastfeeding. 

Just thought I would share our xmas photos with you. The first one Zack really was not impressed when santa wanted a cuddle. He didn't mind taking the chocolate though. 

He was happier in the second one though. He was only interested in the marshmallow lollies santa gave him.