Dearest Mr Tyler is only 20 days old but yesterday and today have been the days from hell.

He used to be great with his sleep - aren't most newborns? You know the whole sleep, feed then back to sleep thing. Well now he wont stay asleep if I put him down for 5 minutes.

I make sure he's feed, clean nappy and suitably dressed for bed, but the only way he'll sleep is either in my arms, on my chest, or in a HAB. Yesterday he woke about 8.30am. I fed him immediately and wanted to put him back to bed about 9.30am. He would not have a bar of it, and he'd fed well so I can't say his was hungry.

It wasn't until I lay down and fed him (as a last resort) at 1pm that he actually fell asleep. I'd fed him, burped him, rocked him, carried him etc and had very little success. And no long term success.

I ended up waking him about 4.45 cause I wanted to make sure he got enough to drink during the day so his night would be good. Once I woke him however he wouldn't go back to sleep until 8.45pm. More boob, rocking, patting, burping, bathing... nothing helped. In the end I gave him more boob after the failed bath and eventuallly he crash.

It's so horrible for him - I've never seen a newborn with bags under their eyes - and Tyler has them.

It's not that great for me either cause I can't do a damn thing.

Any suggestions?