Jayne, I think that's sleeping through. My mother has told me Samuel should be on a 4-hour schedule again as I was on one and sleeping through at 8w. Oh, p!ss off, woman.

Kirsten, I put baby Pubert to bed before the colic started and he slept through. Otherwise, Calpol is your friend! (as suggested by a doctor we took DS to see.)

Kel, yay for a good mother's group!

DS had his jabs yesterday (such a good, brave boy!), and then when I changed his nappy I saw BLOOD. It's from where the buckle of his car seat hit him, so we were back to the GP surgery. It's just under the foreskin, but so painful (looking at the face of the doctor and DH when they saw it convinced me, if the screaming earlier didn't!) and I'm fuming. I'm also happy DS is a cloth-bum, imagine the impact if he was in a flimsy little disposable nappy? I have no feeling of moral superiority for using cloth, I'm just so pleased about the bulk it provides now. Never using a disposable again!

DH's parents have said they want to help out as I find picking DS up painful now. Their way of helping: DH drives us round to their house before work and comes round after work, we leave after dinner. Very kind, except that DH starts work at 7.30am and we'd need to leave here at 6.40 for him to get to work and drop us off. And the nappy situation - when would I wash them? Don't tell me to let MiL wash them, she religously weighs all her washing on the kitchen scales (I know, it's weird) and I would be expected to eat round there after she'd washed the nappies. Not a problem if there was once-a-week poo, but as DS poos a lot I'm changing nappies a lot right now as I don't want any poo near his penis, especially with the blood and the antibiotics I'm having to put on it.