Barney, yet again i'm just silenced after reading your story. What an amazing job you've done to get yourself and your family where you are now, you should be very proud of yourself!!! As the others have said, you can only do what you can do at the time and sounds like you did the best thing for your older girls by allowing your mother to take them. I hope you're feeling better after the decision to talk to a counsellor, I know even making that decision has made a difference for me in the past. I'm currently on anti-depressants for anxiety and working up to talking to someone again so I applaud you, it's not easy.

Murph, wow!!!!!

BOC - can't believe Jagger is trying to walk already, what a big boy! How time flies.

Kel, OMG, how can you be halfway already??? Have you found this pregnancy is going faster because you have Tara to look after and (theoretically anyway ) don't have as much time to obsess over every twinge etc?

Grub - Finn has no routine whatsoever with his sleeping. If I had responded last week it would be a very different response to now. We're still struggling to get him to sleep in his cot, his day sleeps are in our bed and at night he's in his moses basket. He's too big for that now so we should move him to his cot but it's just not happening. But roughly he wakes about 7, is up for about 1.5 hours then down again for about 90 mins, then has maybe one or two 30 min naps later in the day, usually waking around 2ish at the moment and then going down for the night around 7ish... But was totally different last week and today he's getting his 6 month needles so i'm sure it will all change again. Hope Ash settles down soon for you.

MadB, hope all is going well in your house with a new bub!!

We're just cruising along. Finn has started solids but being the very strong willed little baby that he is has decided that he can feed himself and refuses to let us put the spoon in his mouth. So dinner time is rather a messy affair but he seems to be enjoying it, although I don't know how much he's actually getting in! And he's finally worked out how to roll from his back to his front though when he gets there he doesn't like it and seems to have forgotten how to roll back again so starts crying!!

He's awake now so better get him up. Hope all is well xx