Hi everyone, I hope you're all well. Thanks for your support and advice. Yasin doesn't need rocking to sleep but he likes to have his hammock bounced until he sleeps so he doesn't quite self-settle. He woke up about an hour ago and after almost an hour of bouncing is back to sleep without a feed. He was fed an hour before that so I know he wasn't hungry. He only went to sleep when DH stepped in (I geuss he knows that there's no milk there) which is annoying because DH gets all smug about how he's better at putting him to sleep than me. I geuss that we'll just have to keep working on it. I've decided to give him a chance at self-settling each time I put him down and not to step in until he starts to sound unhappy. If he hasn't started sleeping better by 9 months I'll call in reinforcements. I know that if I go to any of the sleep schools they'll want to do controlled crying and I'm just not strong enough to listen to him sooking.

Kellee, its so annoying when you're baking doesn't work out isn't it. Especially when its an icing error not the baking itself. I'm sure they tasted great which is the main thing. I'm trying to figure out the baking time for chocolate mud cake in cup cakes at the moment. I have a plan to ice them in differant colors then arrange them like a bunch of balloons.

Michelle, I hope that Jessica was a bit nicer to you today and her teeth stop hurting her soon. Did you see the Dr Phil episode about the messy bedrooms? He gives them an hour to tidy and then anything in the wrong place belongs to thier parents. I saw his family first book in the shop the other day. I was going to buy it but I figured that I wouldn't need it for another year or two and bought a useless sleep guide instead. It was full of stuff about colic and crying and had only a small part on sleeping. grrrr. I bought a copy of The Story About Ping too. It used to be one of my favorites when I was a child I was always harassing mum to read it to me.

Michelle, I love bells on socks idea, its cute as well as practical. Maybe for deaf people they could have a pager that vibrated when they were asleep. Maybe instead of cutting out Lani's rollover feed all of a sudden you could start cutting down the amount gradually so that she doesn't notice it going.