LOL Rachel! Seriously, I'm no expert! Just tossing around some ideas and things that have worked with Jacob and things they suggested to us at the sleep school and things that we've also tried here (and things that perhaps didn't work!)........I know how hard it is when you're SO tired and desperately want a few hours of unbroken sleep, that's why I'm trying madly to come up with some ideas for you! Any help I can give you, I will!

I understand it must be really hard when you've got to try and juggle things with your DD. I don't have that to contend with (yet!). I wish I had a magical solution that would tie in with the skating and swimming, I really do!

About comfort toys - Jacob isn't really into soft toys or that kind of thing either (with the exception of a couple of things lately) but we put in a cot toy with a pull string thing on it and a mirror - didn't take him long to work out how to pull the string and get the music going himself. Sometimes during the day (and night) I will hear the music going, so I know he's woken up and fumbled around for it, and turned it on. So perhaps it's worth a go?

And yep, yawning and eye rubbing sounds like a pretty good tired sign to me!

Like I said before......it can also be a developmental thing and will pass. I know that's easy for me to say as I'm not the one going through it right now (well actually Jacob is having a bit of a feral sleep week-wise!) but it is pretty common for sleeping problems to surface at this age. It's damn hard work! So having said that, perhaps all of these ideas we've thrown around won't work at all and one day Blake's sleep will return to normal again LOL!?!

Kelly has mentioned a book called "The Wonder Weeks" (I'm yet to get myself a copy) but from everything she has said about it, it's fantastic. It might be worth a look in?