Oh it has been ages since I've been on. I've missed out on so much.

Well we officially have a teething child in the house. The last two nights Jacob has woken up every 1.5-2.5 hours just grumbling. He thrashes his head around in his sleep and is altogether not very happy. Saw the CHN this morning and she confirmed what I had been thinking. Also said that he would probably get a lot more wax in his ears as his head heats up during teething. Its funny as I had been about to ask her about the wax in his ears as it looked pretty disgusting!! So pretty tired after going from a baby who only woke up once or twice during the night, so one who is suddenly devil child. On a brighter note he is now 6.4 kgs (which is a gain of 400g in 2 weeks) so really happy about that.

Hey Willow - I agree about the sleeping through. Jacob wakes up for his feeds, but settles back down again really easily (when he isn't teething), so I'm not too worried that he doesn't sleep through the night either. Plus I read something the other day that said "scientifically" if they sleep for five hours that is considered sleeping through. So a lot of our bubs are doing that anyway. I am so glad that you are feeling better. Its so hard to relax, but you are right, our babies know what they need, we just need to trust them and our instincts. The more relaxed we are about things, the happier they will be.

Keira - we are only partially swaddling now. Jacob fights the wraps if his arms are wrapped so we have just gone with wrapping his legs. And we only do that at night so he knows the difference betwen night and day sleeps. By the way do we have to use the grobags after we stop wrapping them?


Suse - Jacob is only doing one sleep cycle during the day too (well most of the time). I have stopped fighting him over it as we both ended up in tears.

Hoody - hope you got a bit of a nap yesterday. You really need some healing time by the sounds of things.

Sorry I haven't replied to the other posts but they are on the previous page and i think i will loose what i have written f i go back (so bad with computers some times)

Oh Jacob is awake, after 30 mins. Talk to you soon.