Thank you for the welcome Teresa & Missawah, I hope you & your baby's are well.

Krisvee, well done on the long stretch of sleep from bubs, I hope it continues for you. Liam was doing about the same thing feeding at 6pm then going through to about 2am. I have recently started feeding him before I go to bed at 9pm and he is going through to about 3am or 4am and just the other night slept right through to 6am.

Hi Beata, great to have you in this thread as well. Not sure about the wind thing with the bottle as I am B/F, but it seems to make sense that a stronger flow could give him more wind if his having to gulp, but that is just a guess, hopefully someone more expereneced with bottle feeding can give you soon advise. On the smiling & giggling thing, I think each baby gets there when they are ready. Liam is now 'fully smiling' but not doing a true giggle yet. Its good that Cameron is 'talking to his mates' - how cute!

Hi Con, with the short sleeps, is bubs getting plenty of play time before bed? I wasn't doing that earlier on, in fact I wasn't given him much play time at all, not realising how much he did need quite early, I was under the very incorrect perception that all newborns did was sleep. Once I incorporated more play time and watched his tired signs, he does sleep for good streches, I just have trouble getting him to go to sleep in the first place.

Human bean, I did some reading on the net this week re: sleeping stratergies and found one artice where a doctors said that babies around 12 weeks (didn't reference younger than that) sleep about 15hrs per day with about 10 of those during the night, so that is about 5-hrs of sleep during the day. Liam also sleeps for about 45-min to 1-hr, sometimes he does one 2-hr sleep during the day. I guess all babies are different. Liam also had a rash at about 4-weeks that took about 2-weeks to go. They can look nasty can't they, but it will disappear soon.

Nat, good thing you went to the OB, that sounds quite painful, I hope you heal quickly.

We are slowly getting into a sort of routine, which is making things easier. DS has been sleeping really well during the night, but as I write this he is crying and DH is trying to comfort him. This is the first time he has ever woken up after we have put him down to sleep. I better go help DH, will post again soon.