Hi Nadine! Sounds like you have been doing it a bit tough. I'm glad things are settling down a bit for you, it will get better and better, I promise! Swings are great aren't they? Our swing was a lifesaver for DS2, it gave me that little bit of extra time to get things done. I also love our Baby Bjorn atm, I can get dinner, etc. finished while Alana sleeps (it's her fussy nap hour so it's easier just to wear her LOL). I too feel sorry for my boys, I'm always telling them to be quiet! It doesn't really work though .

All is going pretty well with us, I contacted a baby sleep Dr via email regarding day naps and he gave me some advice that so far is working well. I was struggling to get good day naps out of Alana and I don't have time to rock her off to sleep and go in and out of her room all the time because I have the two boys to supervise too. He gave me great advice, including not keeping her up more than about 40 minutes at a time. If babies get overtired they are much harder to settle off to sleep and they don't sleep as deeply which keeps perpetuating until they barely sleep and are really unsettled. Since changing my ways she has been sleeping so much better and I am feeling much less stressed.

I'm looking forward to longer stretches of sleep at night though! Last night I fed her at 8:30pm and she didn't feed again until 3:30am, then again at 7:30am. Our best night yet, hooray for only one overnight feed! I won't hold my breath that she'll do it again tonight though LOL! I hope she is learning to go a bit longer though, I might start feeling human again sometime soon.

I have put my business on hold atm, but I'm still operating online (processing online orders). It has been so busy for some reason! I'm getting at least one order a day which is such a pain because I have to package it and get it posted. And lots of people want to come in and pick their goods up which is another pain again! It's so hard to coordinate feeds and sleeps around customers, especially when they don't show up or are really late, grrrrrr! So somehow I am still running a business amongst all the chaos, it's ridiculous, but I don't want to shut the website down because it will take a long time to build things up again later. Poor DH has heard me rant and rave about it a lot

I hope everyone is doing well, come and post in here when you get the chance!