Hi all,

It is good to see most people are travelling fairly well at the moment, and some of the problems with feeding/ sleeping etc are starting to iron themselves out.

Jess- SOrry to hear about your friend. Hopefully you will Patrick home with you soon as well.

Velcro Babies I have found with Tori that she does like to be held when she is sleeping but if I wait for her to go into a deep enough sleep she is fine to put down. If she wakes when I put her down I have started to settle her and put her straight back down. Eventually I will work up to putting her in her bassinet for self settling, but she is still young so I will wait till she is ready.

Co- Sleeping I am not against co-sleeping but have found that she settles well enough in her bassinet at night to not need to spend the whole night with us. I am like you Candy- I dont think I would sleep well with her in the bed with me. We do however usually bring her into bed with us after the early mornign feed (5-6am) and DH spends some time with her, cuddling her, settling etc, before he goes to work. We do have the bassinet in our room and I sleep with it pulled up to the side of the bed.

As for us we are doing quite well, getting a decent amount of sleep at night, usually 4-5 hours before the first wake and then 3 hours after. Tori usually only feeds for about 20 mins in the night, so we are back in bed by about 45mins.
MIL arrived yesterday and has spent today with us, she is staying till the weekend and then going to see some other family. It has been great she has been helping with the cooking, cleaning, washing etc. She even bought our weekly groceries for us today which I thought was a lovely gesture.

Anyway best go and do something, not that there is anything left to do, might take the opportunity to read a book!