Elsie now weighs 13bs and 10ozs, wowser! The nurses seem pleased that she is following the right growth line in her red book, so all is well there.

She hated her jabs again, and screamed so much, but calmed down quite quickly – I think I was more long term traumatised than her really. The nurse was very funny saying, ‘Come on, you’re a woman, and women can cope with anything – because we have to.’ I don’t know what’s been happening to her recently! I’m sure she is right and you do just cope with everything that parenthood throws at you, but it is so hard to see her in pain – I can understand why some parents want to wrap their children in cotton wool and hide them away from everything that could hurt them. I just hope I will be brave enough to let her go out and experience the world in all its glory, including all the scrapes and pain that will involve – and not totally freak out the first time she comes home with a grazed knee!

The nurse also said that she does have eczema, so we went to the pharmacy and got some aqueous cream for her elbows, and some oilatum for her bath after baby clinic yesterday. I hope it does the trick – at the very least putting oilatum in her bath has made her hair look very cool today in a kind of mohecan style!

We are going to spend this afternoon making a mini disk of Elsie’s favourite songs for adventurous Auntie Sally N over in NZ. There will be some KT of course, and Put your records on by Corinne Bailey Rae which is her new favourite song to dance (and sing!) to. She is also loving the Kanye West one which samples Move on up so I think there’ll have to be some Curtis on there too, oh what fun we shall have!

This is a picture of us at Caz’s birthday meal – I don’t know what is going on with Elsie’s Simon Cowell-esque trousers, but I think she carries off the look, not many could!