People who say they 'slept like a baby' has obviously never had one.

Boy. Sleep is scarce around here! Any quiet moment (which is rare in itself I must say) I find myself drifting off to sleep. Sometimes while breast-feeding, going toilet. .  even bathing him makes me even sleepier!

Help would be invaluable right now. .  you'd think it would actually live up to it's name though - help. .  it would help in some ways, give me a break is what my partner says. But really, if I'm not feeding, burping, changing, bathing, coxing him to sleep I'm trying to catch up with everything else. If I didn't the washing piles would be up to the windows by now and my sister would have made us all clothes out of flax. That wouldn't be a bad idea actually since there is an abundance at this house!


Who would have thought having a baby would be so hard. Yes it's rewarding but the true test is the whole trial and error debacle!! I have trouble getting him to fall asleep most times when he is due to sleep and now has started refusing stubbornly during times to go for hours and will just cry. Sometimes i'll look at the clock and it'll have been 3 hours and still not a droopy eye in sight. What works for one baby won't work for another. THEN to mix it all up again what works one day might not work the next.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

~ Franklin P. Jones

I have tried everything. Wrapping, not wrapping, rocking, a bath before night time, singing, using a pacifier, playing classical/soothing/white noise from youtube, dimming the lights, the feed-change-wrap-'play'/'interact'. .  then swapped it around to change-wrap-feed for night time.. massage, controlled crying - although most people would say he's far too young. I've run out of ideas!

Using a dummy was brilliant for the first week and he didn't spit it out too often and stopped crying to concentrate on his new found comfort. Now he spits it out all the time and has learnt how to cry. .  with the dummy still in!! Every time I need to settle him to sleep it truely is different from the last.

I was warned that a babies sleep cycle can be pretty erratic but this just feels ridiculous. In saying that give me a few weeks and I'll look back to now and think "well. .  that wasn't so bad really. ."

Fingers crossed huh?