Well we have gone back and forth with the sleep thing for DS. He is now 8 months and crawling, so things have changed again.

The one thing I did was to record exactly what he was doing and when. I recorded every feed, what time he went to sleep, exactly how long. I noticed after a couple of days that he actually had a routine, but being busy with my older DD I hadn't really noticed it. So he now goes for his first sleep 10:15am and for his second around 2:30pm. I feed him to sleep each time, then put him in his cot. Somedays he just does the two 40 min sleeps, other days he stays asleep longer. If he really seems tired by the afternoon and his morning sleep got interrupted, I hold him for his afternoon sleep and he normally stays asleep for an hour or so.

I am now being a bit kinder to DS by trying to stay at home for his sleeps or make sure if I have to go out that he can sleep in the car or pram at his normal sleep time.

Night time, he now does stretch out for about 2 - 3 hours between feeds. I haven't done anything different, co-sleeps and feeds whenever he wants.

I hope your little one starts sleeping better soon. It is so frustrating when they won't sleep.