Hi girls!

beany - I've only recently started trying to do some proper cooking again, too. Though I'm still doing very simple meals. I can't believe that Michael is cutting teeth already! I hope you get a more settled night tonight, though. Lack of sleep is awful.

Alison - Can't wait to see your photos!

willow - I got Liam's teething necklace last week, I think. Not sure if it's really making much of a difference, but it can't hurt and it looks cute. Though my MIL told him that he looked like a girl

Tilda - I'm really glad that Matilda had a better night in her own room. I'm torn at the moment with Liam's sleep - I kind of want to try him in his room to see if he'd sleep better, but I don't want to be up all night having to go to the other side of the house to feed him. It's nice not having to get out of bed. If he would consistently go to one feed a night, it would be doable. But then again, he might not go to that until he's in his own room. If only his cot wasn't a total pain to move, we could try it and see what happens. Funnily enough, though, I was talking to DH about it a bit, and though he'd been a bit against bringing the cot into our room, he really wants Liam to stay sleeping there for now. I guess we'll see how things are in another month or so.

And the feeding to sleep thing - I think it's only a problem if you feel it is. Liam is still fed to sleep 90% of the time. I figure that it's a very natural way for babies to go to sleep (why else would it happen so consistently) and they'll grow out of it eventually. When you don't have a great sleeper, you just take what works to get them to sleep, I think. And don't worry about breaking down when talking to the ABA counsellor - I think that's pretty par for the course with their work


Hi to everyone else!

AFM - Kind of exhausted (as it seems we all are at the moment). Liam had a couple of really good nights last week, but the last handful have been bad. Last night he was just screaming and screaming and took forever to settle. I think it's mostly teething pain, to be honest. I was getting to the point where I was going to give him some panadol to see if it helped when he finally went to sleep. He was awake for ages this morning, too - but happy most of the time. I managed to get him to have a couple of good naps this afternoon, at least, but he's still pretty overtired.

I'm making a commitment to try to start looking after myself again, too. I can't do any kind of drastic diet while BFing, but I'm going to really try to eat better (not that I did today, thanks to crazy chocolate cravings. And as I typed that, I just realised that I forgot my calcium/magnesium supplement, which would be why). I've been getting out walking every day for at least an hour, too, which is lovely. Though Liam tends to start whinging about halfway through if he doesn't go to sleep