have a look at 'if i want to quantify how much Babybear is eating...' i wrote it last night, in a haze of tiredness and unnerved-ness over how little Babybear is eating compared to before. you have my sympathies... it is a bit freaky. although i don't fret about the food flying, i at least like to see some of it go to her mouth first so an outright refusal it is a bit dis-heartening. i've been putting it down to teething (and the nappies have been filed under that too) but isn't it weird that everyone is experiencing this at the same time, given that the babies are all different ages? wonder if they just hate the onset of winter and the clocks going back, and are all discombobulated? who knows? or maybe we all hate the weather and are feeling less tolerant? it's a pain not being able to strap them in the buggy and go and sit in a park, that's for sure. anyway, hope everyone snaps out of it soon. by the way... i find metanium is good but quite drying in a way, so we use it and bepanthen as well. not at the same time, obviously, but turn and turn about (well more or less. it's more like 'whichever is nearest' rather than a rigourous system.) the bepanthen seems to calm the skin down better, i think.