Hi everyone,

Am so far behind with everything that's happening here, I seem to have almost no time to myself at the moment. So I thought I'd grab a quick moment before he wakes up to drop in & say a quick hi.

Not much happening from my end of things. Starting to be a little frustrated that Liam doesn't appear to be close to sleeping through the night, if I get close to 4 hours then I've done really really well. Plus he's developed feeding issues - he just fusses at the breast most of the time, likes to have about a minute, then screams to sit up, then wants to go back down again, then screams... we can do this for 20+ minutes on the first side alone. Then he'll often want to go to sleep without having the second side, but only sleeps for about 30 minutes (if I'm lucky), then wakes up yelling for more food. MEN!! It's playing havoc with my supply, especially overnight. Sometimes I wake up & feel like I'm exploding, or about to. And then, when I try to get some expressing done (in preparation for the wedding we have to go to in a couple of weeks time), he always seems to know & won't settle until he's drunk everything I was going to express. Oh, and whilst I'm on the whinging train, he has a couple of really dry patches of skin on his ankles, and on his hands & a bit on his face. It looks like eczema, but it doesn't appear to be irritating him, so I'm hoping it's not, but it worries me a bit. We don't use much on his skin (QV oil in the bath is about it & Dermaveen to try to fix the dry bits), so can't imagine it's anything that I've put on him, but it's perplexing. I wish these kids came with instruction manuals sometimes!

Anyway, for not having much going on that was a bit of a rant - apologies for the whinge, especially as in the scheme of things I'm having a pretty easy time compared to some. Although it doesn't always feel that easy!