Hi Emma – nice to meet you, I am fairly new around here. Lovely to hear about your man, you sound so happy. Poor Gabby with her nappy rash, I hope it gets better very, very soon for her (and you). Gabby and Angus share their birthday (and we share the anniversary of when we became Mummies)!

Lea – I am very sorry to hear about having to take Nixon to hospital and about his sleeping (or lack of). I know how you feel (more on that later).

Jean – I hope all goes well with Jessica’s scan.

Angus has three teeth, a bottom one and two top ones, I think the other bottom one is coming through now. They have all come in the last 3 weeks. He often only has one day sleep and then every few days he’ll need to catch-up and he’ll have two. His absolute favourite thing in the world at the moment is the microwave.

I know this is a gentle parenting website but we are about to do the dreaded controlled crying here. Angus wakes every two hours, sometimes hourly and we are wrecked. We have tried everything, sharing a room, sharing a bed, breastfeeding back to sleep and nothing is working for us as a family so we are going to give CC a try. I am following the instructions exactly as written by Robin Barker in her book Baby Love. I think it is really important not to give babies mixed messages, either you respond to them quickly or you don’t and then they learn to go back to sleep by themselves. If it takes more than 4 nights I’ll give up and reassess.

I think leaving a baby to cry is just so wrong but I feel like I don’t have a choice, the situation at the moment is intolerable and can’t go on. And I truly believe that in a happy, loving, well balanced home this is just what has to happen so that we can all function again.

Tonight’s the night, I’ll let you know how we all go.