I've been reading save our sleep and her feed routine is based on the one in the book, but I dunno about the 'self settling technique'...seems to be put them to bed, let them cry as long as u can take it til u cave in and resettle them or they fall asleep...in the book they make it sound like they will eventually fall asleep but jade just kept getting more and more hysterical and I couldn't take it after about 15 mins...and when I reverted back to her dummy,if it falls out she freaks out but only during day sleeps. At nite she sleeps fine without it, is that wierd or what?
TM, she probably sleeps more deeply at night and so doesn't need it. I haven't heard of the Save Our Sleep book but it sounds awful if it is just about letting them scream until you can't take it any more!! I'm sure they fall to sleep from exhaustion - at least controlled crying just has you doing it in little increments, and not until they are at least six months old.

We've had brilliant success with the "no cry nap solution" and my instinct was right that once we sorted out Thomas' daytime sleeps, he'd do better at night. It's taken about two weeks but we've really got into a good routine now, and it seems so much easier now to figure out when he is hungry and when he's tired, and when he just needs a cuddle. Today he literally only cried twice, both times when he was overdue to go down for a sleep. And he's more and more often just lying down in his cot or in my bed, and going to sleep. He hardly ever nurses to sleep any more.

His favourite place to sleep though seems to be on Clare's bed - I often lie him down there while I'm helping Clare and Isobel clean up their room. How he sleeps through me growling at them and getting frustrated is beyond me!!

I feel a bit rotten because SIL and BIL have a baby boy who is about ten weeks older than Tom, and he's a bit of a hndful. He's a beautiful baby, very charming and sweet and gorgeous, but constantly on the go and not a good feeder, and never sleeps during the day. He strikes me as an incredibly bright little boy, but he is a lot of hard work. I hate admitting how easy Tom is in comparison!!