Thank you for your interest

Dear All,

Thank you so much for being interested in our progress. I have tried to make the comments setting easier to use, but I really appreciate the e-mails from the fanbase (!) For anyone else wondering about Alice's movements in the last 48 hours...

1. Yes, thank you, the jabs went OK. She behaved very nicely while the doctor fed her the nasty tasting rotovirus one (not sure what this is, but am sure I don't want my daughter to suffer from a disease I've never heard of) and only cried while the needles were going in, not afterwards. She's been a bit grumpy the last two days, but nothing that some extra TLC can't resolve.
2. Sleeping un-swaddled is going OK. Haven't been brave enough to try that at night yet, but we've managed it for the last three days worth of daytime sleeps (all 12 of them) in a cute baby sleeping bag with arms pinioned down with a blanket on top and things are going well. One of these days I'm going to have to be brave enough to vary the night routine, or the poor child will end up having a bottle and sleeping swaddled until she's 10, but, as proud (and rather dishy) Aragorn said in The Return of the King, "It is not this day".

From all of us here at the good ship Alice, in the immortal words of Edward R. Murrow, “Good night, and good luck.”