Aaaah....that can be something too, that he is smelling the milk if you go in to settle and he's thinking it's time to feed!

I found it took me quite a while to know the difference between a bit of a call out and a proper cry. One of us would always go darting into Jacob the minute we heard a skerrick from him - I think partially because we wanted to make sure he had his dummy, was under the blankies etc and wanted to prevent it from getting to an established cry! So I think that to a degree, perhaps we made the problem worse ourselves? I'm not sure... :-k

So we will leave him now if he has a bit of a call out/yell and just wait to see what happens. If he breaks into a proper cry then we'll go in, otherwise we leave him to his own devices. Quite frequently over the past couple of months he will wake in the middle of the night and chat to himself - and I mean have a full conversation with himself LOL. The other night he was up for 3 hours which was a bit demanding as it meant we were all awake (not that we had to do anything, it just kept us awake!). But at least he has that confidence to put himself back to sleep or if he cries he knows we'll come.

YAY for Blake nodding off again after waking. I hope this is a good sign for you!!!