20-25 weeks

From my diary "I thought we were doing well- baby #1 had started to have more sleep (and at night!) but at 21 weeks we had several disturbed nights and fretful days. He wasn't very interested in food and dribbled endlessly. Then today we found he had his first tooth.

Between 21 and 24 weeks baby #1 was very unsettled. He was fretful during the day and needed constant nursing. "Had difficulty settling him at night and he woke several times each night too. He has a snuffly cold and a rasping cough which keeps him awake. At 6 months I gave up breast-feeding completely. His food intake:

between 7-8 breakfast Baby Cereal + 5 oz bottle of SMA milk

12-1 lunch Full tin of Heinz dinner + dessert (half a small yoghurt or half a banana) Drink of orange juice

4-5 Tea baby rice, or Heinz tin or rusk + 3 oz bottle

Bath about 6pm Bedtime 8pm 8oz bottle

At 25 weeks baby #1 had his first triple injection against diptheria, whooping cough and tetanus

The injection left a hard red lump on his arm. He seemed very fretful and he was sick twice during the afternoon (unusual these days) . He whined for most of the afternoon.

Baby #2 at the same age (21 weeks +) was subjected to change as we moved house. This seemed to affect her sleeping. We would get her ready for bed about 6pm and she would settle well, sleep for about an hour and then be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed until 10-11pm. Meanwhile toddler brother (aged 22 months)had started to become rather faddy about his food. Some days he hardly seemed to eat anything. His talking was advanced with complicated sentences. He could be very negative however and getting him dressed or changing his nappy often involved mini-wrestling matches!