Goodbye sleep my old friend...

And with you goes the sound of silence.*

Our little piece of stardust is coalescing nicely, and with that growth comes change. And with change comes noise. What routine she had has gone out the window, to be replaced by seeming randomness. We're still coping, and truth be told, she's still pretty good, but she doesn't sleep so much now, and that seems to be in 10 minute power-naps. When she's awake it's a mix of silent concentration or gurning ready to split the air with "sonic knives of nigh-unendurable intensity".

I exaggerate a little, but when she's very unhappy Marnie has learned to use her standard issue ear-splitting spectacular. Think cartoon baby face / siren wail and you're not far wrong. Doesn't happen often, but when it does - well, I'm surprised more parents don't suffer hearing loss - like having a hornet in your ear-drum.

Apart from keeping us awake at odd o'clock, we're doing OK. Marnie's lost some weight so we're now almost forcefeeding her rather than pacifying and we'll see what the health visitor has to say next week. The mark on her back isn't as angry, but still there.

C's doing a lot better, the antibiotics seem to have made a big difference. But since the feeding routine has stepped up a gear, she's now getting less sleep, and it's more painful. We'll start expressing and bottlefeeding to see if that works in giving her a break.

My first technology transfer workshop with industry seems to have gone well, although we did realise one mistake - the idea of the whole project is to kick off connections between academics and industry, but we didn't have a way of recording those connections which might go somewhere... improvement required for the next one. Speaking with folks afterwards suggests it worked well though. We've a few meetings to arrange during the wind up of the project for the end of April, and then a new bunch of projects should go forward. Hopefully I'll still be in the School to see what happens.

On lighter notes, as a long time fan of Robin Williams, it's nice to see him still doing his thing.

And it's amazing what you learn when baby-pacifying and surfing at 02:25... apparently cats obey the Law of Grabbity.

* Apologies to Simon and Garfunkel