I've just noticed that Blake is 6 months old - a prime time for sleep disturbances I believe! Jacob's problems with sleeping started at 6.5 months!

Also, WRT sleep schools, we went to one here when Jacob was 9.5 months. It was a gentle sleep school - they didn't practice CC or anything like that. They really helped us to identify Jacob's tired signs and to follow those cues and to find ways of settling him and suggesting things to alter our evening routine etc etc. I found that it really helped in terms of us knowing/understanding Jacob a lot better and helped us feel confident that what we were doing (by responding to his cries rather than ignoring them) was the right thing to do.

It wasn't the raging success you'd hope for (and that most people hope for!) in that he didn't miraculously start sleeping through every night, but it helped us to understand what we needed to do to help him. So after we came home, we felt more confident in terms of watching for those signs, acting on them, and then settling him again if he woke.

We find that we still have weeks where his sleep is a bit feral, but the next week it will be great. But we have found that the same settling techniques that worked for him initially at the sleep school, still work for him now - but sometimes it just might take that bit longer for him to nod off. There are times when one of us would be with him for say 45 minutes patting/rocking/stroking - but those things did work for him.

Whoops......waffling again! 8-[