Right - looks like it's my turn for an epic catch up 
Sorry everyone's been having rubbish nights with all the babies 
I hope it improves for us all soon!
I don't know if it will help any of you (and apologies for this will be long!), but the way we got Lauren to go to sleep in her bed, was:
- Put her in a few times whilst she was still awake but not tired. All curtains open, so she didn't think it was bed time. We talked to her, and played a little bit, then took her out before she started to cry.
- Then after a few days of that, we put her down for her naps during the day only (so shorter than night time naps). Typical routine - closed blinds, put lullaby on, pats to the back shushes and gave her her dummy etc. When she settled, we shushed her as we walked out of the room, and closed the door. If she started crying again, we went back in quietly, more shushing patting and giving her her dummy back. We only stayed in for a short time and left either when she'd settled or after about 30 seconds (sounds really quickly, but its actually quite long if you time it). If she still didn't settle, Id go back in after another 30 seconds and repeat until she settled. That way she knew we were there, but she didn't actually need us to go to sleep.
- After about 2 weeks of daytime naps in her cot, she was ready for night time sleeps too, at which point we introduced a proper bedtime routine, so bath, pjs etc. We also have a different feeding routine for night time feeds as well - these are always upstairs on our bed, but very quiet, dim lighting, not much eye contact, then straight back to bed, with the same settling routine if required. Whew! Told you it was long
Epic - sorry to hear about the shit shocking hospital, but good news about your MIL 
Hi Bun - nice to 'see' you - sorry about the tonsillitis. Gosh your birth sounds a real mix of beautiful moments and horror moments! Glad that you're all healed now (and don't worry - we've all shared tmi at some point )
Great news about the extra sleeping and the successful feeding Mamma
Sorry about the 4 month regression Trouble - just remember it's just a phase. It will pass Oh and I had the same advice from my mum when we went through it with DS. That, and 'Ooh he must be hungry - give him a rusk mixed up with some milk - that will make him sleep through the night' 
Yeah ok mum. The old smile and nod and promptly ignore technique In the meantime, Bun's advice orders are spot on. Focus on yours and Fyfe's NEEDS and forget about anything else especially baby DH's
Bugger about the new tumbler ellie Hope things have improved for you. Did the chocolate help?
So my night out was really good Except we did far too much walking for someone who's worn heels about twice in the last 6 months! We went to a Japanese restaurant, in China Town - go figure I've never had Japanese before, so was a bit nervous when the consensus was to order a few dishes to share around. We ended up with some meat, some fish and some vegetarian dishes. And it was amazing! We ended up with a starter of a few different nibbles, followed by tofu & spinach soup (yuck! - found out I don't like tofu), but then we had scallops, salmon fillet, lobster, chicken and steak with stir fry and egg fried rice, all cooked in front of us - yummy, yummy, yummy! I could eat it all again now - except the soup of course I was home by about 12.15 and my boobs were killing me! But as I'd not been drinking, I expressed a full bottles worth and stuck it in the freezer Then Lauren woke me up at 3.40am for a feed, and I had to wake her at 8am for one as we were going back to Manchester to visit my work mates with her (soooo tired!). But she behaved for Daddy and they were fine except the 2 hours crying in between feeds Not bad considering I was out for about 8 hours though.
Anyway, I've waffled on enough for now - we're enjoying a very chilled out weekend to try catch up on the busy week! Hope you're all doing the same