Well it could be :) You see this morning I woke up to silence and not the sound of a baby crying for the first time in about 12 weeks. After the inital panic I realised something special had happened.

After the recent weeks of battles with reflux, vomit, hours of screaming and general new baby lack of sleep – last night Oscar slept :) and when I say slept I mean I put him in his cot at 10:30pm after his 9pm bottle and that was the last I heard from him until 8am this morning. Yes that’s right Oscar slept through the night for the first time :) :) To top this off Zara also slept all night without waking due to teething etc

It may not last, it may just have been a blip in my chaotic life at the moment but maybe just maybe this is where things start to get better. I daren’t count any chickens but Zara started sleeping through at about 6 weeks old and Oscar has just passed 6 weeks corrected age so maybe just maybe he is finally going to start sleeping.

Yesterday he was awake most of the day, feeding very frequently and generally not settling inbetween feeds and so when I put him in his cot last night I was really expecting to be back downstairs with him within half an hour, there is no way within my wildest dreams that I would have expected to be only getting him up at 8am the next morning.

This morning I managed to get Zara ready for nursery and have a leisurely cup of tea with my husband at the kitchen table whilst Zara had her breakfast, I managed to have a shower, sort out my daily chores and have some breakfast all before Oscar woke up. This is how I like my life to be, organised, on top of things, peaceful, filled with nights of sleep and days of fun.

Will it last? Well probably not, tonight could be back to the old routine of 4 hours sleep if I’m lucky, 2 if we have a particularly bad one, Zara could be unsettled and refusing to sleep. It could all go pear shaped again but you know what? I will forever remember this morning and the night of the 9th of May 2011 as the day when I woke up feeling positive and smiling, when the sun was shining and I felt like singing. The day after the night I have been longing for for weeks :) So Oscar I would like to thank you, my clever clever clever little boy :)

Oh the indignity of being made to wear a pink bib