Hi all,

Been reading but not posting for a while - trying to do some uni work and Blake's not always co-operating and trying not get too distracted by BB.

Not even going to try and do personals - just let you all know how Blake's been going.

Blake seems to have his good days and a few not-so good nights. He finally stopped complaining all Monday mornings 2 weeks ago (scream the place down and not sleep for long at all). For some reason it just seemed to be Monday mornings, when DH came home early (that goodness he had a great boss), he'd settle down usually after I was at my wits ends and ready to kill something (DS would have that really high pitched crying).
Now we seem to have unsettled evenings any time from 4 to 12 midnight with frequent feedings (BF), basically attached to me nearly the whole time or sleeping for 1/2 hour and I was a morning person not a night owl before DS birth - so I'm not really wanting to be awake. Sometimes though just to throw us off, he'll settle really well and sleep for 4 - 6 hours at a time just when we'd decide to start staying up expecting him to wake in 1/4 hour or so. (He decided Wed to go to sleep at 7pm and slept through to 1am basically even through getting in & out of the car twice during that time - so 6 hours between feeds)
Have had a couple of bouts of gunky eyes (just started another bout today). Also had a nasty nappy rash that got so red and raw, we had to visit the GP (found one for DS - mine was too far away) for antibiotics.
I'm hearing people on the wind issues - DS had days & nights where he can't sleep because of it. I've gotten a close carrier sling to help me get things done when that happens and to make things easier when going out. Had to go car shopping with/for DH the other day (he wrote his car off the other week) just as my sling arrived - DS slept the whole time (well nearly, except for 5 min when he complained just before he was going to get out anyway) - was soooooo impressed with DS. He likes the sling most of the time as well. We're also trying the infants friend drops which sometimes works. Have also tried bicycling his legs and pushing his legs up into his tummy to help get the gas out. Also tried (not often) a little bit of tummy massage on him as well. He doesn't like burping for me (will do it for DH most of the time)

Had our 6 week check up Wednesday - all good, is now 4.9kg from 3.17kg at birth (and 3.57kg at 2 weeks) so DS put on 1.33kg in 4 weeks - not bad for a BF boy! gone from the 25 percentile to the 50 percentile. (the amount he eats, I'm not surprised nor is DH)