Tan - OMG, Izzy is sleeping like a champion!! I'm so jealous. We had a few good nights with Luke a couple of weeks ago but it's all gone backwards again recently. Actually, the last few nights have been particularly bad - Luke just wont settle and its starting to do my head in!!! I think he's overtired as we've been out and about quite a lot. I think I'm going to start saying no to things and focusing on my little boy and getting a routine in place. What has worked for you??? I'm also having trouble this week with Luke pulling off the boob and screaming. I'm really confused as I don't know if its the reflux or not and I'm starting to worry that he's not getting enough. The other night I gave him some ebm and he guzzled it down, it's really confusing and it getting me down.

Oh god, where was I. Sorry, I've just been trying to settle Luke - its exhausting. I'm trying some techniques from the 'Save our Sleep' book and it's really difficult but I think we had a breakthrough. After about 6 mintues of whinging, Luke managed to settle himself - hooray!! Lets hope this sleep lasts longer than 20 minutes!! We've been relying on the dummy to get him to settle and its just not working as then when he wakes after it falls out, he can't resettle himself, so he's not getting any decent sleeps in throughout the day. So, I'm starting again and trying to teach him the art of settling himself. I had no idea how hard it was going to be and have been in tears today! Its all a bit much and I'm feeling really quite down and a little hopeless. I just don't know what to do anymore and the breast refusal thing that Luke is doing again is really affecting me. I've got an appointment with the health clinic nurse again on Thursday, so I guess I'll have a chat to her about it all.

Anyway, sorry to be such a downer, its just so hard and there are so many different techniques and advice on settling babies and routines, it's really confusing. Generally Luke is really good but I'm just worried if we don't get the day sleeps and feeding sorted, things could turn ugly really fast (and I think they already are). I guess I'm just really tired too after a few bad nights, so it all seems a bit worse.

Talk soon.

Kelly xxx