Hi all,
Well I'm back for the time being anyway. Jacob is down for a sleep now so I can update you all and maybe even do some personals. - WARNING LONG POST!!!

Thanks for all your support over the last week or so. I am feeling a bit more confident than I was before about his sleeping now. I am not quite sure what has changed or what has made the difference but we have gone from being up overnight every 1-2 hours (with at least half an hour settilng time in there) and only one sleep cycle during the day (and up to an hour a half settling time), down to last night he was only up twice, both times for a feed (1am and 5am) and he was straight back down to sleep afterwards. He is also now doing two 1.5-2 hour sleeps during the day and maybe a shorter one if the afternoon. Its funny because last night my mum stayed over so she could get him back to sleep for us and she ended up just picking him up, giving him to me for a feed and then going back to bed, but I love her for coming over. Running on max 1.5hours sleep at a time was starting to do my head in a bit. So what did we do? Well we have started wrapping him again for every sleep, took him to a chiropractor and also saw a homeopath. Like I said before not sure if anything of those things made any difference, or if he decided to settle down on his own I don't know and I don't care. The last couple of days have been getting progressively better, so I am praying that we are over that issue for the time being. At the moment I am still rocking him to sleep during the day. We did try Tresillians tips about self-settling and I was trying to follow them, but after a few days he started to panic every time I went near the cot. I am not sure if I was doing it wrong, or not but I will leave that for a little bit. I would much rather work on him sleeping soundly at night than worry too much about how he goes to sleep, especially in my sleep deprived state. I was getting pretty emotional for awhile there.

Oh and I tried to get help from the community health nurses in Brisbane and got completely stuffed around. In fact I had a bit of an emotional meltdown in the clinic this week after being promised help and then being told that they "don't do sleep here". Was a bit suprised that they handed me a feedback form on the way out, but I will definitely be filling it in. I think a few people got in a little bit of trouble after I left, but it didn't help me much. Luckily I have a fabulous partner and wonderful parents who have put things on hold over the last few weeks to help.

Anyway until the next sleep issue arises, I am hoping we are over it

Ok on to personals - I apologise if some of this is out of date

Welcome Heather and Belinda, glad you could join in.

Heather - so happy your mum and dad are moving closer. It will make it so much easier for work. Although bummer that work arent being understanding about you wanting to be part-time. I will def try and have our mothers group at my place this week, but will send you an email!

Belinda - sounds like you are getting enough tummy time to me

Willow - congrats on graduating sleep school, that is so fabulous. No rolling here, in fact he isn't even trying. I'm not worried though, in fact I'm dreading it a little. It means they are growing up so fast. We will probably start on rice cereal soon too. Maybe ours will both start sleeping through once we do

Dragonbub - How are the elusive teeth going? It seems to go on forever doesn't it. Oh and I understand about together time. Especially over the last month it has been pretty bad. Plus I can't get the boy to take a bottle, so I can't leave him for longer than about 4 hours in case he wakes and needs a feed. I hope your special dinner plans smooth things over.

Hoody - Crossing my fingers for your weighin today

Twinsis - hang in there with getting Cameron in to his own room. You will get used it it soon.

Suse - i am watching the news and hoping you aren't getting too wet. I lived in Townsville for a while so know all about the feeling of being flooded in.

Limeslice - what on earth in the nappy hunt? Have I missed something in my sleep deprived state?

We have a 4 month needles tomorrow. They were supposed to have been on Monday, but the dr wanted to check a few things in case he was getting sick. And I went to a baby massage class today which was great. That might help with the sleep too!

Thanks again for your help and support. I have been lurking over the last little while, but just not doing much else.