Rachel - I don't want ours to sound like a perfect situation (DD has woken just now and is crying for me as I type this LOL) Re-reading my post.. writing it so simply it does sound better than it probably is LOL. We have nights where they don't sleep so we compromise.. we tell DS he can fall asleep in our bed and we'll move him later.. or if they just really can't sleep we let them up for half and hour or so and then start again. We've let them crash in the loungeroom, when we had the rocking chair in the loungeroom we'd rock them to sleep there then put them to bed. We've been there and done all that too. But more often than not they go to sleep on their own in their own beds. At least we now don't have to sit with them.. so more than anything was sharing how I got out of sitting with them for hours on end

Don't feel ashamed or guilty... we all do what works at the time And what gets us all through it is knowing it won't go forever.. cos they change eventually.. and move onto the next stage! *hugs* Nothing at all to be embarrassed about.