Just quickly, DS has always been difficult to settle, but it's getting easier in recent times. I think it's him getting older, rather than anything we do. Mind you, the easiest times are when he feeds to sleep. And last night was atrocious, but he's been unwell, so that never helps.

When he was tiny I had to do laps of the house with him to get him to sleep. I had a broken foot, so that was no mean feat LOL. I worried that he would never go to sleep any other way. But of course he did, he got too big to carry around endlessly, so we restricted the walking around to his room. And then we lost the wrap (at 9 months , he loved it) and then we just sat in a chair. Sometimes now he'll go to sleep in his cot, but it's not that often. Sometimes he'll go to sleep on the boob, sometimes he feeds, sits up and puts his head on my shoulder and goes to sleep immediately. Sometimes he feeds, sits up and decided it's play time LOL. Just like he got too big to be walked around, one day he'll be too big to feed to sleep, and too big to sit on my lap, so I try not to worry about those things anymore.

What I'm trying to say is that things change all the time, and what you're worried about now may not bother you in the future. Of course, it may be replaced by other worries, but hey, that's life LOL.

I'll be interested to hear what the O'Connell centre says