Not having a good day today, I had a car accident this morning with both my babies in the car It wasn't a bad one and everyone is OK but I still feel like crap.

It was my fault, I *think* I went through red light, I saw the other car but the road was wet and I couldn't stop in time. DS was having a shocking morning, i was tired and rushing to get to our chiro and CHN appts and just wasn't concentrating enough.

So for all those other tired mummies out there - be careful! We were very lucky.

So after today I'm feeling pretty awful again. The counsellor called me yesterday to make an appt and I almost told her not to worry about it, glad I didn't now. My friend is doing DS' birth announcements and when she sent them through today for me to check I bawled my eyes out!! Just when I thought the tears were gone...

Hoody - my DD and DS are very different too. No way was my DD sleeping for that long a stretch at 5-6 weeks though, you were lucky!! But DS definitely needs to be held and to have more cuddles than DD did. He very rarely self settles either. I have called the Tresillian help line and they said that until 8 weeks most babies can't self settle and even then you shouldn't expect too much, just start introducing sleeping routines etc because they aren't capable of learning how to self settle until about 12 weeks. So don't worry too much! I think you might have just been lucky with DD1??

I'm going to a sleep and settling session at Tresillian tomorrow so I'll share any helpful tips they give us!

Dragonbub - I'm glad you are seeing someone if you aren't feeling like your normal self. I'm the same, I think a lot of my issues are from losing our second bub and all the stuff that happened around that time, IVF etc etc not so much issues with DS (although I do struggle with the lack of sleep and his unsettled times some days!).

Hang in there girls, it's hard work these first few weeks, especially those of us with two or more and our DH's working long hours, but we will get there!