Jamie is feeding non-stop all afternoon and evening. I got him to sleep for an hour and a half between 4.30 and 6 but otherwise he's been clamped to my boob on and off since 12 with not much break in between. My bum is numb from all the time sat on the sofa and I feel bad about having done no housework or evening meal preparation!! Luckily Wayne is being really supportive about it.

I've tried holding him and rocking him to sleep but once I put him down he wakes back up. We have had some success with the dummy, but it doesn't always work. I find I have to try and get him to take it before he gets really grumpy and is crying, otherwise he spits it back out. Sometimes taking him out in the pram or car works, but other times it doesn't! Yesterday we walked to town to take him to be registered. He cried the whole way there and wouldn't take the dummy. The day before, at a very similar time, he'd slept for 2 hours while we were out with him in the pram! Once we got to the register office, Wayne picked him up, rocked him and he fell asleep for the next 3 hours!!

Anyway, he now exists as a proper, real person - James Thomas Meade :)

I'm letting him feed whenever he wants in the day but it's very restrictive in terms of planning anything or going out. But I guess that's life with a newborn!

The really good thing is that he generally sleeps from 7pm-ish til around 10, and then we give him a bottle of expressed milk. For the last few nights he's then gone from 10.30ish til about 2.30-3am, and then til 6.30ish. I know I'm lucky to get longer stretches in the night and I hope it lasts!!