Hey, I'm back! Brace yourself - full on babble coming up!

I'm feeling a bit more human after a couple of nights' decent sleep. DP is cranky, as I anticipated, but it's bearable. DS still isn't sleeping so well, and still has his times all messed up, but it could be worse. I'm trying hard to break his habit of wanting to play at 3 AM. He is having a few good naps during the day still, and maybe I need to try and drop one so he will sleep better at night.
I just really needed to catch up on a few nights so I could deal with it better. At least my friend, whose son would sleep 14 hours a night, is now waking every 4 hours. I have no sympathy for her and that's so bad, but hey... I would do drastic things for that kind of sleep just once! I'm convinced that it's just a normal thing at this age, though, and it will pass.
The teething thing certainly is a b!tch, and the toxic green poo and nappy rash that comes with it are just awful. I just wish a tooth would pop up and we could be over with it, for a little while anyway! If only DS would hold on for a day or so without pooping! At the moment it's about 4 a day!! And he's chomping and drooling and squealing so much. Cold carrot fingers and teething ring are helping, if only as a distraction.
I went to the Baby Expo today, and absolutely hated it. I did get a Jolly Jumper for DS quite cheap tho, and DS LOVES it!
Have booked in to see an immunologist at the Childrens Hospital as I need another opinion/more information on Yellow Fever vaccination for DS, because at this rate there may be problems if we go to Africa, then coming back into Australia if he hasn't been vaccinated but has potentially been exposed to Yellow Fever. But he's too young to have it, and altho I dont want to have to cancel this tripas it would cost us a fortune, if it's at the expense of DS's health then we'll have to forget about it.
AF came back this week. SOOOOO annoyed!!
umm... yeah.

LMK - nice to see you back here! Hopefully you can take heart that things are challenging for a lot of us at the moment, and you dont have to make that difficult decision to stop BF. It's hard when there's that feed-sleep association thing...
Mis_tree - geez, too bad about your car! What a pain. Good luck with the Dr and court stuff on Monday.
Jess - hope your DS is ok!
Sass - hope you hear back about one of the jobs soon. The nappies are good, but might last only another week or so before his chubba thighs dont fit! You probably would've gone nuts with them, as they're better suited to new-new babies (not that absorbent). I might donate them to the Russian orphanage charity organisation that's in the cloth nappy forum thread when I'm done.
OK, I have to go. DP NEEDS to go get icecream NOW... men!
BBL!!