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Despite how it may look, I have been all too aware of the cobwebs gathering around this blog, and although I'm a SAHM layabout who doesn't get out nearly enough, I really do struggle to find the time to sit with the laptop and write a blog post.  Ada has been asleep for nearly two hours and I expect she'll wake up before I finish.  She's been a bit of a nightmare when it comes to daytime naps - waking up after half an hour and refusing to go back to sleep, grumpy as heck for the rest of the afternoon, but today she's been surprisingly good.  She does sleep through the night so I can't complain really.

Ada has her four month vaccinations today, rather late considering she's five months old tomorrow.  Last time she only cried a little - the nurse distracted her by clapping her hands and she was grinning seconds later.  I might take a noisy toy of some description to distract her this time.

I have had some success on the meeting people front.  I went to a slightly-further-away Sure Start centre, which caters for younger babies far more than my local centre.  There's a "drink tea and chat" group on a Thursday morning (supposedly for first time mums, but it seems to attract everyone - some women had teenagers and were onto their fourth child) and a mini messy play group on Friday afternoons.  Ada was still the youngest baby at the latter group, and therefore had have her feet dipped in flour / paint / foam by me, rather than climbing in under her own steam like the other babies.  Still, I think she found it interesting, even if she was tired and grumpy enough to need her dummy towards the end.  Wasn't sure about the rice pudding tray though.  I can see the appeal of the sandbox but

[cue a gap of several hours]

not getting covered in cold rice pudding.

You can just about see the rice pudding over in a tray in the background.

[cue a gap of a week]

See?  It's difficult.

The vaccinations went fine in the end.  She cried, we came home and then she slept for nearly three hours.  Then she woke up, feeling grotty and very sorry for herself, but nothing a bit of Calpol couldn't fix.  That's it on the vaccination front, until she's one, unless I stop dithering about giving her the BCG soon.

If I remember rightly, it was routine to get the BCG jab in year 10 (well I did, anyway).  That's been abolished to save the NHS money and now it's given to infants who are considered to be more likely to come into contact with people with TB.  This includes Ada, as 50% of her grandparents were born in India (I think it covers most of south and east Asia, probably Africa, and some European countries too - my health visitor said that Romania is on the list, for example, but Poland isn't).

I've been dithering about it, because Ada isn't likely to be beseiged by far-flung infected Indian relatives anytime soon (or anytime ever) but at the same time, maybe it's just sensible to just go for it.

In further "getting a life" news, I am starting baby massage classes in two weeks, am signed up for baby signing classes starting in late April (really looking forward to those actually) and have met a mum friend via Netmums.  She's really nice and we have a lot in common - same age, married within a few weeks of each other, daughters born within a fortnight of each other - and it's been SO GOOD to meet up in Wimbledon for a coffee and a chat.  And cake.  Hurrah.