Blodwen is 11 weeks tomorrow. She arrived last Sat and was a little noisy just as we put her to bed around 10 o'clock.
We were getting up at 3am for the first few nights to take her out but I was finding that I couldn't function properly in the day, just too exhausted. She was doing a number two during the night and crying at around 3pm but we have taken to feeding her at 5-6pm and no more later in the evening and take her out to the toilet just before bed time which seems to be working so far.
Now she sleeps and is quiet all the night through from 10 pm to 6am when we get up. When we go down to her at 6am, she has done a number one and number two but it's 'new' and she hasn't been sitting there all night next to it, I think she does it just as she hears us stirring upstairs and coming down to her. We still take her out as the first thing we do when we go down to her.
She actually seems to love her crate and we have a play pen attached to give her more room and space. She never cries when we put her in there. (touch wood!) She never goes to toilet in her actual crate, always in the space outside in her play pen during the night. She sees her crate and pen as 'quiet down time' space and is very well behaved when she is put in there. We are so glad and relieved about this!
