He slept through!

Oliver slept through the night two nights ago for the first time!

[Insert your own fanfares and celebrations here!]

He slept from 9pm until 8am. We were amazed. He made a few noises around 6am but never fully woke.

Of course the following night he refused to go to sleep when I tried to put him to bed and then got up for a feed at 5.15am. Oh well!

He is suffering from "baby eczema" at the moment. It looks quite inflamed around his temples and forehead and we are applying a cream we have been prescribed by the health visitor. She thinks his fitful sleeping and quite frequent semi-wakeful noises in the night might be caused by his discomfort brought on by this condition.

I feel rotten for him that he is suffering like that because he is such a happy little boy and spends so much of his day smiling. The only time he really gets grouchy is bedtime. Most nights he will cry or at least whinge when we try to put him to bed, even though he is clearly very tired. So we are looking on Amazon and eBay for good books on improving bedtimes at the moment.

Hayley has also noticed him start to mimic us when we eat so we may try him on solids soon. We'd prefer to wait until 6 months but we'll see how things go. If he shows more signs of being ready for solid foods we'll probably have to make an earlier start. Hayley recorded a few thoughts about this in her blog.