Happy to say that one month after Sophie started sleeping through the night in her own cot, she's still doing it every single night. We've had maybe two or three nights in the last month where she's woken up once, and on those she's gone straight back to sleep with just a quick back pat and her verbal cues.

We've only had one night where it all went wrong and she went to sleep at 7:30, woke up three times before 10:30, and ultimately wouldn't go back to sleep without being in bed with me- but it turned out her eighth tooth had broken through her gum during that night, and the next night she slept straight through again.

Anyway! It's a very consistent, long-term miracle we're having here. I didn't mention in my original post, but Sophie was born with severe brain damage after birth asphyxia. Despite a month in intensive care and a very bad prognosis, she's been a complete miracle and today is 100% healthy and up to date with all of her milestones. Still, all that had a big impact on our willingness to let her cry- we just couldn't do it after all the trauma we/ she had been through at the start.

The nurse at Ngala, when I explained this background to her, stared at me for a minute, then asked, "Do you actually want to be here, or did your husband talk you into coming?". When I agreed to leave Sophie screaming her head off for almost a full hour, she told me that all her crying was just angry crying, and asked me why I was still upset when my baby wasn't (to me, furiously angry is just another kind of upset, something that Sheyne Rowley acknowledges and tells you how to deal with).

I can't really say enough bad things about our Ngala experience- and I still didn't get the difference in the types of cries until I got the Dream Baby Guide. A bit sad that it took a book to teach me something that an in-person clinic attendance couldn't.