Hi all,

Sorry for not doing personals but I forgot who has had what happening as I've been busy running around the place and trying (and eventually succeeding) to do uni stuff (I must be mad to try and get uni stuff done - although it's my last subject in my Masters of Ed course).

Not too sure about how I feel about going back to school in a fortnight (2 Mondays time) - DH is going to spend the first week home with DS except for the Friday (he's going to Sydney for the day) and it will be Blake's first day in Childcare. It could be an interesting week for DH might get a few visits/phone calls to school for me.

Blake's also been having trouble going to sleep during the day and early evening. I've eventually learnt that he doesn't like sleeping before about 8:30pm in the evenings and more often it's closer to 9:30/10pm when he'll go down - takes after his father a bit there - night owl - while I'm an early to bed kind of girl. But he only wakes twice overnight - somewhere between 2 & 3 am usually and then around 5 - 6 am for feeds and nappy change, then up for the day somewhere between 8 & 9 am. His day sleeps are starting to settle down again, thank goodness. He used to sleep for 2 - 3 hours and go down easily before his baptism (20 Sept) but got out of that routine that weekend and fought going to sleep during the day since then. This week we're starting to get some longer sleeps than 1/2 hour (when I got up to put him in his cot) on me after feeds (saw a just a few movies on DVD the last few weeks). Starting to get back to having a 1 1/2 - 3 hour sleep in the cot again or in the pram if we're out watching DH play tennis after settling to sleep in the sling.

I've not been seeing a MCHN, I've just gone up to weigh Blake every now and then. (Is that bad? ) I don't have any questions for them often so I don't see the point. DS's currently 6.97kg and 61.5cm at 14 weeks/3mths1wk (3.17kg and 48cm at birth)

Although this week I kind of do have a question. (will also post this question in the general baby/toddler area)

Blake's got really dry skin all of a sudden (it's been working up to it for the last fortnight) on his face and (this has come up in the last week) on his body. I haven't changed anything in the past week or so.

He does have a bit of cradle cap which is slowly disappearing (tried baby oil, MooGoo scalp cream, and olive oil) but it seemed to migrate slowly onto his forehead (before trying the Moo Goo scalp cream) and then down the edges of his cheeks (closest to his ears).
The dry skin doesn't seem to bother him - although DH is a bit concerned. I put some MooGoo MSM cream after DS's bath each time on him but it doesn't seem to have done much. I thought I'd try something different last night instead and tried to use sorbolene cream and DS started screaming as soon as I tried to rub it in so that came off reasonably quickly with the face washer and the MooGoo went on instead. I did put a little olive oil afterwards on a spot near his chin on his chest to see if that would help as that spot was starting to get scaly like his forehead and cheeks. (I eventually ended up using olive oil on his scalp & forehead to ease the scaly-ness of the cradle cap as I wasn't getting to putting on the Moo Goo scalp cream often enough and the MSM cream wasn't appearing to do much. The olive oil seemed to settle the forehead a fair bit). His back and chest seem to be dry and looks a bit patchy in it's dryness. It almost looks like a rash but I'm not sure. It doesn't appear to annoy DS so not quite sure there.