Well today we had our 2 month immunisations and poor Jacob screamed his little head off. I felt like such a horrible person holding his leg still for the needles, but its much better than the alternative! Handed him over to DH for a cuddle and he instantly went to sleep. Poor thing! He weighed in at 6kgs which I am really happy with for 9 weeks.

The last few days with Jacob have been amazing. He is just developing so fast. We are having lots of conversations now and he is discovering lots of new sounds he can make. Its always fun watching his face after a new or loud sound that comes out of his mouth. He seems to think our ceiling fans are people as he will "talk" to them for ages or just stare at them giggling. We have one of those playgym things that you lay them under and they can hit thinks and they make noises, well today he was able to get his coordination right and he was bashing away on it. This leap in his development though has meant that he has decided day time sleeps aren't important any more. After a few days of fighting to get him back to sleep DH and I just decided to let him decide what sleep he needs. Obviously if he is showing tired signs we get him to sleep (and he goes down well), but if he wakes up and we can't resettle him after about 10 minutes we just let him stay awake. It has made for a much happy environment since then.


Willow - welcome back. Sorry to hear your holiday was not particulary restful. We seem to have lost the feed play sleep routine at the moment too, but I really think its just temporary.

Hoody - I hear you on this being hard as a couple. Last week I was so fed up with feeling like the hired help. All I seem to do is housework and baby settling. But I know its pretty hard on our partners as well. Everything has changed so dramatically and so quickly. But the fact that you guys have realised and are making an effort will make all the difference.

Krisp - I think thats a great idea to get Ewan into child care. It will give you more of a chance to spend quality time with Paisley and he will love getting out and socialising. Not sure about helping you with Paisley sleeping in her cot during the day. Maybe just make sure it is really dark and quiet like it would be at night (but I'm sure you've tried that).

Dragonbub - Jacob has just discovered his thumb as well, althought at the moment he settles for his whole fist or a few fingers. Not sure whether its a problem with sleeping or not. If he seems rested enough then he should be fine.

Hi to everyone else, hope all your babies are behaving.

Quick question for those of you that are putting your baby down for a sleep while they are still awake, how did you move to this? At the moment most of the sleeps that Jacob has are when we cuddle or rock him to sleep. Sometimes we can put him down in his cot when he is semi-awake and pat him to sleep (but this doesn't work even 50% of the time). I know we shoudl be teaching him to sleep on his own, but we have tried a few times and its a dismal failure.