Michelle, if DS won't sleep during the day I wear him in the baby bjorn. It took him a while to get used to it, now he's asleep within ten minutes of me putting him in, holding him, kissing his head and jiggling around! It works at night if I swaddle him and bounce about holding him to my chest. The downside is that he snores something chronic when upright, but at least he tells me in no uncertain terms that he's asleep!

Having said that, I don't want to do it forever and have been worried about creating "bad" habits for sleepytime, so do keep trying to get him to settle in his cot OK. But if the jiggling works then I'm not going to deprive myself of sleep for it right now, and this way he's not sucking himself to sleep as he would be feeding or with a dummy.

Good luck with the vomit smell removal! Cleaning the sofa and using a fabric spray would be what I would suggest.

BTW, has anyone had their baby''s poo habits changed? DS is now only doing tiny poos most of the time, then a huge blowout just once a day - but that's over everything. Covers the nappy, the nappy cover, his bum, his genitalia, even the tops of his legs! Still, at least that's during the day, if I had to spend a few minutes cleaning it in the middle of the night I wouldn't be quite as happy with him, poor mite.