Poopie- Glad the book is helping- it was a bit of a lifesaver for me. The other lifesaver for me was a baby carrier. DS was very unsettled, and needed to be held A LOT and liked being close to me and scrunched up. ERGO baby carrier is fantastic, but I had a simple cloth sling and a hug a bub style wrap before I found the ERGO.
I'm not feeling the blues this time around, but with my first, I very much did. I didn't have PND, but those first weeks were so hard, with so much screaming and so little sleeping, that I didn't cope very well at all. I remember at one point about this age lying there thinking if someone came in and offered to take my baby away (forever), the only thing that would stop me would be the knowledge that I would regret it later. I wish someone had explained clearly that after a few weeks things do settle down and get more bearable- for me it was 5/6 weeks- before that I thought it was going to be like that for months, and I couldn't cope with that prospect.
Emilyn has pimples covering her face, scalp, ears, neck, chest and back. The chest and back are worst- at least a hundred on each- it looks so sore, but it doesn't bother her.

RumpledElf- I agree that cry it out means different things for different babies. My son would never self settle and if left it would escalate and be distressing for both him and us, and I wouldn't have dreamed of abandoning him to suffer on his own. This baby hardly ever cries, except for a few bouts of discomfort from gas once a day or so. She can be put down awake, and if she stirs, she often needs no input to settle herself- which doesn't bother me because she is not suffering at all.