Questions

Can you recommend a good book of photographs of babies' faces? It needs to be lightweight (my RSI is predictably affected by having a baby to carry around all the time). I'm usually opposed to this kind of thing as I feel vaguely squeamish about the mild exploitation, but Linnea loves looking at photos o babies' faces, so I don't care how exploitative it is any more.

Does anyone know whether paracetemol and aceteminophen are the same thing, and what the par-mol and minophen bits of the words mean? And the acete bit, for that matter?

Can people who know Rose please ask her to recommend a good Evil Tea for my sinus cold, which has spread to my ears and is causing me immoderate pain? As a breastfeeding mother, I'm not allowed any of the really good drugs. I've been using lemon, ginger and honey, but it's not very effective.

There are rumours (in the instruction manual) that it may be illegal to use a Tommee Tippee baby motion/breathing monitor in Ireland because of it transmitting to the parent unit. It this codswallop or should I conceal the fact that I'm going to import it?

Awake! Awake! Fear! Fire! Foes! Awake!

Normally, Linnea stops breathing, the alarm on the monitor goes off, startles her, and she starts again.

Today, the alarm went off, and didn't stop. I dashed upstairs, shouting to Rob (who was already upstairs and could get there faster) "The alarm! The alarm!"

He walked out of his office carrying Linnea.

The machine couldn'tdetect her breathing because she wasn't there.

I sat on the stairs and cried.