Hi Ladies,

I have read some of the other threads & while this is similar I am desperate for advice so I am posting this seperately.

Well DS is 7 mnths today & I am booked into Trisillian next week & I know they are going to want to do a form of controlled crying (letting him cry upto 5 mins before I can go to him upto 40 mins) & I am desperate to avoid this but I don't know what else to do. For every sleep I have to rock/jig him to sleep & at 11kgs this isn't something I can keep doing, DS won't sleep longer than 30 mins unless I sleep with him, at night he will occasionaly sleep for an hour or so before I go to bed but not always. He was sleeping in the cradle but he is too big for that so I have tried putting him in the cot but I can barely get him in the cot before he wakes, at the most he sleeps about 15 mins in the cot. So at the moment he sleeps in the 'big' bed until DP wants to go to bed then I go the single recliner lounge where we fall asleep together (I know it isn't very safe & we have a king single coming for us to sleep in) He is also starting to crawl backwards as well & last night I went in twice to find that he had unwrapped himself & was on all fours looking at me & he hadn't made a sound like he usually does so I am also worried about him falling off the bed.

I don't know what else to do he won't feed to sleep, will he always want to be rocked to sleep?? how do I get him to sleep without rocking him?? can anyone help? PLEASE??