Congrats ANDIE.

WE will NOT be having another one anytime soon. If ever. E is a bit of a handful at the moment. But Ican't blame him, we did take him to the other side of the world and have him travelling for 24 and 28hours. At hte moment and when we first got there he was waking during the night and would not resetlle and would jsut squeal and get very upset. Our first night there I was up from 330am and would not resettle and was walking him in the Lobby at 530 as he was making so much noise. I gave up trying to get him to resettle and we started the day. This am he was up from 5am after being awake at 1-230. I have a cold still, have been sick most of the holiday. WE did have a good time though. It was a bit challenging to say the least.

We went to a sleep school and it has made a difference. I know he is being a horror at the moment but once he settled down he was waking 1-2 a night or going from 11-5/6am. HE settles well too. Torrens House in Adelaide is different as they don't do any CC but htey do allow the child to cry with you there. Active settling. Look at the KAritane website for tips. Or the Child and youth health page. They run the sleep school and we followed the routine strictly and it did help. We are not so strict now and he is sometimes only having one sleep but it is still mainly 2. I was having to feed E 90mins-2hourly overnight to get him to settle, if I tried water it would be about an hour and still not settling. Once I put him on the bottle and at TH he improved, plus he was being wrapped tightly. Try wrapping if you don't already. It does make a differnce. Use a single bed sheet. My motto is 'if they can breathe it is too loose'. To settle E, I will put a hand on his chest to hold him in one spot if needed and jsut tap the cot mattress and shh, as he is not a fan of being patted htough this is changing. You can rock the cot too. Msot of the time now he will self settle with the dummy and his music. We have a glow-worm too which can be good to help stop him crying. If you use a dummy try a night light as maybe he will settle with that if he can see it. E loves his dummy. WE need to wean him off it. HE has it in all the time at the moment. with some breaks but he loves it.

E is not talking much, mum, da, good, go, or sounds like that. HE squeals too. HE can go from screaming to being adorable and flirting in 60seconds. It is quite annoying at times. E also shakes his head. Not walking yet but pulls himself up and sometimes will let go. Goes up onto one knee. He has 12 teeth and I think an eye tooth is niggling, not sure I am not allowed to look.

Anyway I have rambled enough.

Hi to everyone. If anyone wants more specifics on settling techniques feel free to Pm/ email me.