So when does it get to be fun???

[Emma1979]

i must say, i am really starting to enjoy hollie, she is just over 3 months old, that said the past two weeks have been so hard with her waking up 3-4 hourly over night for feeds etc, it seems to have settled down now though, and she seems to be sleeping well day and night (touch wood)... i am however prepared for everything to go haywire again, as it just seems as soon as you feel on top of things and like you have a bit of a pattern developing, everything changes and you feel you are back to square one...

i was told it got better at 6 weeks but i found it got WORSE, much worse... I have found that 3 months has brought with it an awful 2 week growth spurt, but now that it has calmed down i am having so much fun and feel so much more confident...

the only thing i can suggest is just to go with the flow and try to enjoy the nice times... hollie had reflux too and from 6-12 weeks the nice times were few and far between, but they grow so quickly you really have to try to get things into perspective and realise the rough times won't last forever and things will get better.... everyone told me this but it is so hard to remain positive when things are so bad and you are getting no sleep etc. When you think about it, its only 3-6 months (hopefully) of your whole life of it being so tough with a newborn, its a drop in the ocean when you think of it that way. It will come and go so quickly. Eventually things will sort themselves out, you just have to be patient. The weeks seem to be going so quickly for me now I am kind of freaking out at how fast she is developing. It seems she is learning something new every week.

Keep your chin up. Its not easy but IT WILL start to be fun and the most rewarding experience. And be prepared for bad days and things to completely change, there is always something around the corner waiting to challenge you, like teething etc. And it seems everytime they are learning a new skill, it throws a spanner in the works. Instead of sleeping they are practising that new trick and trying to master it. Cheeky devils.