Last night I did my first relay for life. My family has been doing it for 5 years now but I’ve always been interstate or unavoidably occupied. There was around 30 family members in the team and we had a shift chart to avoid everyone walking all night. Bree and I took the kids and did a lap or two at the start of the walk. We hung around for a while to cheer people on. Emily had an absolute blast running around. she must have covered 3 laps worth of distance going between the family tent and the river (where most of the people and tents were).
I took the kids to my dad’s house (it’s closer than our house) and put them to bed while Bree walked with a school friend. My shift was 4:30am to 5:30am. I hung around for breakfast at 6 before going to my dad’s house and giving the kids breakfast.
Unfortunately, Isaac has been feeling really bad. He’s got himself constipated and even woke up in the middle of the night in pain. We’ve had him on some stuff to help. It’s starting to work. He did a 4cm log this morning (no wonder he was uncomfortable!) but he’s not clear yet. When we took him to the doctor yesterday morning, he suggested banana or apple puree and variety in general. So far we’ve only been giving him rice cereal because he’s not yet six months old.
Re the constipation, I was told that bananas can actually be constipating. Try pear instead – it’s a fruit with one of the lowest risks of allergy and a high amount of fibre. Rice cereal is very constipating so that’s probably the problem.
Sweet potato also went down a treat with Aidan, but you’ve been here before so you don’t need me lecturing you ;)