Thanks everyone for the replies.

I am counting down to the 6 week mark. By Friday I'm halfway. It helps to know I'm not the only one to tell my baby to shut up. All the tips I've been given are great. I have a sling, it works pretty well.... but doesn't help when I want to be comfortable and sleep. Still good during the day. I've discovered he really loves music, and will calm down if I play ANY mp3 at all. It can be thrashy metal and he still calms down, lol. However that's no good when we're trying to sleep either! All the solutions I've found are daytime solutions.

I suppose I just need to keep battling on, and waiting for things to get better. I just want to sleep, really. DP and I work really well as a team, and take turns giving eachother a rest. Neither of us ever really uses our time to sleep though as there's so much other stuff to do. We've got to eat, bottles need to be sterilised... I'm out of undies so we need to do laundry. The list goes on. BUT we're staying mostly sane, and are supporting eachother instead of fighting and arguing like I hear some do. New babies put a strain on a relationship? Not ours. Axel has cemented our bond more than I expected. Maybe it's the fact I was so sick and could have died at one point there.. I don't know. Even when he's screaming, DP and I can still look at eachother lovingly and smile. Except at 3am. That's when we say SHUT UP! Heh...

Once again thank you all for the advice, I'll be sure to come back to this page when I next feel like a failure. Right now, bubby is asleep, DP is resting, and I'm actually doing something I enjoy. (bb) Feeling quite sane for the time being. Let's see what tonight brings.................... *shudder*