Mel, just thought I'd bring you up to date. Saturday night was terrible but we went out for dinner at our friends place and although Blake had a nap there, he was disrupted the rest of the night at home

Anyway, yesterday I pulled out of the filing cabinet the routine they wrote up for Viv at the sleep school we went to 8 years ago. As my kids are born a day (and 8 years) apart, they are identical ages and stages of development, so that helps.

What they suggested is similar to what we were doing although we have LESS b/feed, and I'm wondering if this is the problem. So, last night Blake went to bed at 7.30 as usual - with a bath with his sister and lots of playing, and of course a bed time b/f. He took at while to settle and stirred about 9pm and wouldn't go back to sleep. So I decided to give him a rollover feed. The s/school routine suggestd 9.30/9.45pm but seeing he was unsettled at 9pm I thought it couldn't hurt. I gave him a bottle of formula as I didn't have much milk, and I was interested to see how much he'd take. (200mls)

Well I went to bed at 10.30pm and he started to make a little noise as he hadn't got his dummy. I gave it to him and didn't hear a peep until 5.30am!!!!!

I got up and gave him a feed as he never feeds when he wakes for the day so I though I better give him some milk as I wasn't going to give him a feed to go down with at 9am, he'd have to wait until 11am or when he woke.

Well I woke him at 7.20am cause that's when I woke, he's had breakfast at 8.15am and was back in bed by 9am, played and got himself to sleep by 9.30am.

I'll stick to this routine for a few days and see how we go. Perhaps my boy is just hungry??? Even though the LC I saw said to demand feed him, I'd rather have more of a routine to ensure he gets enough in during the day so he's not wanting to be fed overnight.

Here's to hoping!!!