Oh Renee, I just want to give you another huge hug! Well done! You sound so happy, and rightly so!

I forgot to say that DH and I turned up to our very first mchn session with 2 1/2 week old DS, who'd been awake for 6 hours and (proudly) told the health nurse he must be one of those rare babies who doesn't need to sleep again after an hour of awake time as he'd been up for 6 hours and was fine adn often stayed up more than 10 hours straight! She was very nice about it and gently told us she thought it was time he slept and we told her he wouldn't, she told us he should and we said 'good luck' and handed him over! She finally got him to sleep after 45 mins then calmly showed us a video about tired signs and how much more easily babies settle if they're put down tired rather than overtired.... and I went home and cried that I was so stupid as to miss all those signs and what a crappy mother I was going to be with no parental instincts whatsoever! I hate it when people say 'trust your instincts' because it's not flamin' obvious sometimes until someone says it (and even then you miss it, cos I'd read the books and notes before that day and still didn't know!).

Little ones are tough nuts to crack and they just love to mix things up for us (lull us into a false sense of security before changing the goalposts again ) I hope things continue to improve with DS.