Thanks for your input guys. Janine - thank you for your gentle suggestion. I just need to think of the positives and not get bogged down in the sleep deprivation a glass half full approach instead of the glass half empty lol! Yes we are very lucky to have a DS (oops - I think i refered to our DS as DD in my original post !!) that sleeps and only wakes to feed.

Thank you all for your encouragement. we will persevere and get some other input from the authors suggested.