Hi Becky - great to see a photo of Declan in your ticker, I can't believe how big he's getting!! Not sure if our story will help, but just in case...

Lucy did this back a few months ago and it just about drove me to distraction. I was happy for her to cosleep while that worked, but she then thought that meant party time. I then went to putting her back into her cot and staying with her, which worked for a while. Then she thought as long as I was in the room, why bother sleeping? So then I would leave her. She gave a couple of cries the first time and then stopped. Since then she actually tries to get into her cot when she's ready to go to bed. In the last couple of weeks she's had a cold and it's getting colder at night, so she has woken up sometimes. I have brought her into bed with us once or twice, and if she goes back to sleep, she stays, if she doesn't, I put her back into her own bed. And I must confess to doing the slightly un-gentle thing and if she doesn't settle in the time she normally does, I leave her to her own devices. And turn the monitor off... Very guilty feeling! But that's only happened a couple of times