I thought it was supposed to get easier around now?? This baby is kicking my butt this week!!!

She turns 3 months on Friday and everything is just going to shit.

At 8 weeks, she was virtually STTN, waking only once to feed around 4/5am, from a 7pm bedtime.

First, bedtimes got more difficult - she started waking repeatedly during the first hour and needing her dummy reinserting. That's ok, we can cope with this.

Then she started being more sensitive to noises in the night, waking when my husband moved around in bed, snored loudly and when his alarm went off. At the advice of HBers, we moved her into her own room at 10 weeks and it worked.... only then she started waking for the 1am feed again. Okay, we can deal with this, I can nap in the day, right?

Wrong. Then came the curse of the crap nap. She stopped sleeping any longer than 30 mins in the day. Its ok, we navigated it - she now takes 30 minute naps every 1 hour (and mummy has given up any hope of daytime naps for herself).

Then she gave up eating during the day. She started rolling the bottle teat around her mouth instead of sucking and spitting the bottle out after 50ml. I increased the teat flow and can usually get 80-100ml down her that way but she fights and flails and chokes and.... my patience is waning....

Then, as this week started, we had the early teething crap, screaming for an hour straight in the night then crying all.damn.day. That seems to have subsided, leaving in its wake the 10pm feed. Yup, for the last two nights, 10pm is back. She is eating every.three.hours again in the night. So now any hope of an early night is gone, too.

Last night was the worst night I've had with her since the newborn days. Up every three hours. Crying until I give her a bottle. Taking barely 50ml each feed. Refusing to settle after. I thought it might be because I tried her in the cot - she is getting too big for her Moses basket, oh and she is rolling so the swaddle has to go too - but even bringing the basket back has had no effect. Its ten past 6 now and I've been in her room since 5am trying to settle her. She wont take her dummy now, either.

Im tired. Im cranky as hell. Im trying not to bitch and snap my marriage into oblivion. And I've had enough.

When does it get easier???? It doesn't, does it? Just tell me so I can give up any hope of sleeping again.