Thinking of all of you in Melbourne. Hope you not too close to the fires SJ.

I agree the nurofen works better for teething.

SJ Paddy now doesn't need to be rocked to sleep. I can put him in his bed and he'll usually go to sleep. I had the same problem with him screeming if I tried and didn't want to do CC. Has MJ something she uses as a comforter? Paddy has a "shay" (muslin wrap) that he likes to rub across his face.

I started trying to put him to bed awake at night. He seemed to settle faster because it was dark. I would keep my hand on him because it was mainly seperation anxiety. The next step was to stay in the room until he settled (didn't work that well but would stop him going into hysterics and I could try to resettle him). Then one day I just put him down facing away from the door, walked out, didn't close the door and he went to sleep. At night I offer him water or just a cuddle unless he's having trouble with his teeth, bf seems to soothe this.

We don't have perfect sleep by any means and sometimes they just want a cuddle. I think that sometimes I caused him more problems by hanging around. A bit like when kids first start school. The quicker the seperation the better.

Keep your chin up chicky. She'll be a teenager soon enough and you won't be able to get them out of bed