11-weeks-old and Jack's changing

Jack is now 11-weeks old and he is doing really well. All this week apart from one night, he has slept through the night from 6-30pm until about 7am... Pretty good. He is still having his late night feed at about 10-30pm, but he rarely needs changing at this time and if he is fast asleep, he hardly wakes and he goes straight back to sleep.

So we are pretty pleased and our life seems to be getting back to normal - we had our first dinner party this weekend and it was really nice to have some friends over and just chat like normal adults.

Our next challenge is to wean him off his late night feed, but he needs to have bigger feeds in the day to go without his late-night feed. He is now having about 6oz a feed, so he is nearly there but not quite.

But he is doing really well and is really starting to alter by the day now.

A well used prambulator

On a recent visit to my folks' place in north Norfolk, my mum notched up an ambition of hers - and that was for Jack to go to sleep outside her house in my old Silver Cross pram...

Pram design has clearly altered somewhat in 30-odd years as I can't see that you can readily fold this one up and put it in the car.. but hey it seemed pretty comfortable still and Jack fell asleep outside their front door in much the same way as I had done 35 years ago now...

When a baby sleeps through the night

Now our baby Jack seems to be sleeping through the night - he is now 10 weeks old and I have to say for the first six weeks I could never see the day when he would sleep though the night... well he has done so for the last three nights, so fingers crossed this is a sign that this is going to be a normal pattern..

His pattern now is a feed at 9ish then at midnight and then he sleeps through till about 7am in the morning.. the question now is can we manipulate his evening feeds, so we can start feeding him earlier at say 10pm and then get him to go through the night?

It seems from this chart that most experts feel that you shouldn't skip that feed until he's three months old.. so we have a few more weeks to go yet.

We are considering putting him onto the Gina Ford the contented baby system - but we haven't finally decided yet.

Now we have a CD that plays a vacuum cleaner sound

I don't think I'd ever have believed that we would buy a CD that just plays the noise of a vacuum cleaner, but we have and it works a treat and soothing Jack in the evening and sends him asleep....

It's called a baby vacuum cleaner..... and all it plays is the sound of a vacuum cleaner continuously and for this work of art we paid a whopping great £7.50... but as Charlie says its worth it for an evening without Jack crying. I think it must be just "white noise"... but it does seem an easy money-making venture to me.

A hairdryer and the famous

Just thinking about Jack being soothed by a running hairdryer in his room.... and it reminded me that I'm sure I'd heard a story about Wayne Rooney only being able to get to sleep when a vacuum cleaner was running in his room.... and a quick search revealed I was right with this story on Yahoo!