My eldest still wakes at night, can't put himself to sleep and I partly blame myself because I believe this is what we have taught him to do from day one. We used to rock him to sleep, always put him in his cot asleep so he NEVER learnt to actually do it himself. Now we are stuck with him sleeping on our floor on a matrass in our room. This is a step up because he used to sleep with us, even when I was pregnant with DS#2. The only thing that I can stress to you is to put him down to sleep awake so that he learns to put himself to sleep. This is what I have done with DS#2 and it obviously works because he has been sleeping through since about 7 weeks (by sleeping through I mean longer than 5 hours). He has been sleeping 12 - 13 hours a night from about 12 weeks old.

There is nothing worse than midnight feeds and wakings. I seriously don't know how I ever survived with my first one. He woke up to 5 times a night until he was about 18 months old... OMG - I just can't believe I survived it but I did and now I have an "angel" who sleeps extremely well.

The second thing is it is okay to let your little one cry... If he is tired he is going to cry but if he is hungry he will have a different cry. Have you worked out your little one's different crys? If you can pick these it will make it a lot easier for you. I let my little one cry for a couple of minutes to get himself to sleep and he will put himself to sleep. If I keep going in there it delays the process. I obviously don't let himself get worked up to a point where there is no way he will go to sleep but I monitor his cries and listen to them so I know where he is at - does this make sense?

I used to post on this website with my eldest because he just wouldn't sleep and people used to tell me the above and I could never understand how people ever did it but trust me it does work and it does get better if you get them to put themselves to sleep.

Anymore questions feel free to post or you can private message me or email me as well (mickyndan@optusnet.com.au), I will be happy to answer any of your questions and give you more hints and tips because I know how stressful a non-sleeping baby at night can be... Good Luck xxoo