hi guys, thanks for your very fast replies!!

i'm pretty good with his tired signs (i think...?) and normally when I put him down DH is accusing me of doing it too soon LOL. At the moment he's up for maybe 2 hours before I pounce on him to take him to bed His early signs are getting a bit red around the eyes, pulling at his clothes that sort of thing. I've heard that yawning is a late tired sign?

Re his food, 99% of his food is home made including his bread. I'm very paranoid about factory made food, so he gets next to none of it and the factory food that he does get - pasta, rice, flour, cous cous, jalna - is always preservative/colour free. It's possible that he does have an intolerance I suppose, but we've been pretty good about introducing foods slowly to watch for reactions and I can't see there's been much change. There's also no sugar at all in his diet, and since I'm still BF i'm a coffee free zone - as much as I need it right now!! He's also been a crap sleeper since way before we started solids LOL. And I also tried an elimination diet myself when he was young too.

I think today I'll be doing the easy option of sitting on the floor with him all day until he decides to go to sleep (wonder how long that will take?) and then tomorrow we'll start the program again when DH is home for a bit of support while I read NCSS again and see if there's anything extra I can pick up. After that I think we'll have to try the mother and baby unit. I don't know how much more of this I can do for him.