Hi all

Jazz has stopped sleeping through lately. She's gone from sleeping 6-9 hours since the age of 6 weeks to now going to sleep at the usual time of about 9:15pm, then waking some time between 1 and 3 am and then again at about 5 or 6am. Big shock to the system. I've decided that this week I'm going to clean her room (I have clothes all through the cot and the room is a mess. I only use it to change her currently). Last night I didn't want her sleeping in our room coz I was sick of waking up at every little sound. I wheeled the basenette into the lounge which is next to our bedroom, then I shut our door. I was only woken up when she was actually crying so I ended up having a better quality sleep.

I'm going to get a monitor this week and once I have that and her room is tidy she is moving out of our room!
The only reason she's been waking up more is coz she has had bad wind. Nothing has helped. Perhaps I've been eating something that doesn't agree with her. I will have to think about what I eat.

Matt has been trying to get more confident looking after her while I go out. I went to church today without her so was planning to be out for a couple of hours. 1st phone call "I can't get her to stop crying and she wont take a bottle" told him to check her nappy. About 10mins later I got another phone call, she was still crying and still refusing the bottle. 3rd phone call and I left to pick her up and take her back with me. She used to be fine taking a bottle but lately has been refusing. I need to try and make her have 1 bottle a day to get her used to it. There is no way I could consider returning to work until she's taking bottles again and also I can't even get her babysat for more than a couple of hours while she's refusing a bottle.

I've been getting heaps of smiles and usually one of the first things she does when she wakes up is give a huge smile! She's getting heaps good control of her hands and really thinks about what she wants to touch and tries to touch it. She keeps reaching for the toys on her activity mat, can't quite grab them but she's trying. She hates tummy time but I'll keep persisting with that. She's started "talking" as well and we have a lot of "conversations" but she also responds to me talking normally to her as well.

With the hand sucking, she's now made one of her fingers red from sucking heaps. I have to put a bib on her all the time now also coz she's just a mega drool factory. My friend whose baby is a month older than Jazz said her baby doesn't drool as much as Jazz does.

Sorry this has been a long one. I've decided that I will not be spending as much time on the computer anymore so I guess I've had a lot happen that I haven't said.

We are picking up the hand and feet sculpture things this week that I mentioned ages ago. I'll take a photo and post it when we have it.