Things are a little more settled here with Emily - yay! She's generally sleeping at night for two long stretches now - from about 10-11pm until 4-5am and again until around 9am or so. We've managed this for the last 5-6 days now. We have also got to a point where she can go into her crib without waking up and crying almost immediately too! Like Byron, Kristy, and Madelyn, jgal - she won't go into the crib awake though without fussing. I do have to rock/cuddle her to sleep first (daytime included, usually), but it's great that we can at least get her to stay in there now, and she usually does it on the first go, with sometimes only a few minutes to get to sleep in my arms. The big thing is that I'm now able to just cuddle her instead of her needing to comfort suck on the breast to sleep - that was tiring me so much at night when it went on for hours.

I found the key to having her sleep more at night was to encourage her to feed more during the day. Sometimes she was going for 4-5 hours stretches during the day without feeding, so I'm encouraging her to feed every 3 hours or so during the day now, and she seems to be liking that. It also means we can have smaller feeds, which is better for the posseting and wind, in general.

Her wind is still there, and can be bad at times, but she is much much better at getting burps up (often on her own) and she's getting heaps better at getting wind out of her bottom on her own too! I think the cranial osteopathy appointments have really helped, and I think she's handling the flow of milk a lot better as she grows. I have found that feeding her lying down on my side is really pretty good for that, and relaxing too! I've tried eliminating soy and dairy from my diet, and that may also be helping too, but I really don't know for sure - just been trying things.

Had our first little smiles in the last few days, and can't wait for them to happen more often and bigger. She's now studying everything! She's more keen on looking about at everything else than studying our faces, very often - such a curious little girl!

Hope everything is going well for everyone, and that as babies mature things are becoming more and more settled for you all.