Tonight was a good night, we put Reagan to bed and went downstairs so Jamie could feed Lincoln whilst watching X-Factor and I went to the kitchen to cook the two steaks I bought in town earlier. We sat and ate our steaks and washed them down with some red wine and all the while Lincoln slept. Afterwards Jamie drifted off to sleep along with Lincoln again and thats the last I remember until 2am

Lincoln and Jamie went to bed leaving me asleep on the chair (nothing to do with the red wine we had with our steak tonight) and I followed at around 02:15

We were up feeding and winding but thats regular baby stuff not desperate in pain feeding constantly up all night as it had been. We talked briefly as I took him downstairs that this is exactly how it was with Reagan with Jamie doing the lions share of work during the night and me taking over early morning….maybe the medicine has helped us turn the corner and Lincoln has become a regular baby and not in pain

Sat here on the sofa at 06:15 with a sleeping Lincoln in my arms you might be forgiven for thinking last night didn’t go too well…? It’s still early (if you’ll excuse the pun) but it’s very much down to Jamie to feed him and because she is right next to him try and settle him afterwards which means although we are both awake a lot, Jamie needs an hour or two to recharge so I have “taken one for the team” and come downstairs with him.

Ironically I fed him a bottle of mommy’s milk and he has slept for an hour why couldn’t he have done that when we were in bed lol

I think a growth spurt is hampering any chance of prolonged sleep just at the moment but we will keep going and hopefully have him trained before his feet are hanging out of one end of the basket and his out of the other lol!

Its not really a routine but after seeing the health visitor today wewere told not to let Lincoln rule our lives and to start ruling his. We know that is not going to be easy but she is right we need to get him sleeping upstairs and we need to sleep in the same bed again.

So last night we went to bed at 11 Lincoln in his moses basket next us in our bed and although it wasn’t the greatest nights sleep any of us has had ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’ but at least we have started to change our ways and tonight will be better I’m sure, we will see!

Last night we tried Lincoln on Infant Gaviscon and all evening he was a little angel, sleeping in his swing chair and Mommy and I even had time to sit and snuggle on the sofa for a while before bedtime. Unfortunately bedtime didn’t go quite how we planned because we thought it was time he slept upstairs with us and then we can both sleep in bed at the same time too. The minute we tried to bed down he started screaming and would not be quiet so we went downstairs again only for him to feed and go to sleep so we went back to bed and although that is where we stayed until 5ish non of us got much sleep because he wanted a feed every hour…

We are not defeated though we will try again tonight but as Jamie pointed out we are nearing a 6 week growth spurt and he is probably trying to buildup her supply! The jury is out on the benefit of Gaviscon but initial indications were good?

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I decided to take the kids for a walk this morning because I wanted to try doing it with both kids for the first time. Also it would give mommy a well deserved break from both of them at the same time which I think she needed.

I pushed Reagan and wore Lincoln and we walked our usual route along the canal into town then down to Croxton Lane and back along the canal home. We had just passed Newton Brewery when Reagan started moaning and pointing and when I asked her what was wrong she point at the park we had just passed LOL. I was oblivious to the park but Reagan was alert and was not going to let it go without a fight…

We spent half an hour playing on the park and Reagan LOVED IT!!!

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