hi girls..

quick update as im exhausted and poopy's got mild gastro, so we got kicked out today!! haha

i found some personality traits seeing him going thru the settling process and playing with other babies. he's been very stubborn in accepting the new routine, but seems to be getting better. slowly but i t hink we will get there, and he will learn to go to sleep himself w/o being rocked etc.
the other thing i found when he's playing w other children is that he loves playing with all the kids, and goes around playing with each one of them, but at the same time is independant and will go off and explore other things by himself. the downside i found is that he's got toy envy.. he wants to play with whatever toy another baby is playing with!!

he's starting to self-settle. i feel a lot more confident and now can distingush his different cries, just plain protest or him being upset. and know when to go in and comfort him. it is tough love, bron.. but it also taught us that he has to learn to accept what he teach him, instead of the other way round. it was really hard at the start, my heart would tear into a million pieces w each cry but i got more confident and understood how he's feeling. it wasnt so bad as the nurses stood w me outside the door and explained to me each time, what he was going thru and we didnt let him cry for more than 5 mins.. it was all up to me when i wanted to go in.. and tehy guided me. that's the SS in brief...
as for his other routine, they said at his age of almost 11 mths, it should be like this...
bf before bfast
bfast
sleep for 1.5 hrs
play
lunch
formula
sleep 1.5 hrs
play
dinner
bath
bf
cuddles/story
bed.

im going to bf morning and night and ff in the afternoon as he will be in daycare.

danni - maybe you could talk to an MCN to workout a routine for daycare days and weekends for jazz.

everyone - thanks for your thoughts and support. self settling is hard work.. but we are trying... xoxox
we met some lovely parents and bubs, lakshman bonded with another boy 2 weeks younger than him and a girl 15mths old. the boy and poopy would sit next to each other in their highchairs and hold out their hands and hold hands. and during play, they would play w each, seek each other out and play w one arm over each others shoulders.
so we are going to keep in touch and see each other again.