kirsti not selfish- we do that lots of days and Ada loves it. She gets to stare at people, she quite likes ambient chatter andthe noise of coffee machines... Wrap yourselves up warm and go and find coffee, I say.
We're going to stay with MIL. I want to see her, and I'm fond of her, but sleep is so crap at the moment that I don't feel like I've got anything in reserve. Also, I know there's a bit of her which thinks I've brought it on myself (even though Ada was sleeping quite well for a while) by using a sling instead of a pram and keeping her in our room still at the grand old age of four and a half months.
We had another lot of wake ups last night. Poor baby does her best to get back to sleep on her own- I quite often wake and she's sucking her fingers and then going quiet and then sucking her fingers, but she can't quite do it and after ten minutes or so she gives up and cries. So there isn't really that much I can think of to do.
The thing is, maybe it is my fault. But aside from the currently crappy sleep I've got a baby who is basically cheerful and friendly, so when I think back over things at four in the sodding morning I don't think there's anything major I would have done differently- lots of little things, sure, but nothing massive, style-wise. So although I'd love to get some uninterrupted zees thems the breaks, I guess. And MIL should be more sympathetic given that DP apparently didn't sleep through till he was three and a half.