LMAO Trill, I remember you saying I needed to get W sorted out before the new baby two years ago and I am still in the same place!

What can a GP do?

Basically his behaviour is up the creek because his sleep is so crap. He is back to waking several times at night, often tantrums before bed and during the night when he wakes. Funny that MD mentions SADS because his behaviour is always so much worse going into winter. Feb/March for the last 3 years has been bad for us. He is also wanting us to sleep with him all night, he doesn't want to be alone. I am starting to wonder if this new insecurity has come from his recent realisation that people die (thanks earthquake), since it started at roughly the same time.

I have also cracked it big time with this comforted sleeping crap. It failed spectacularly the first time round, then I went and did the exact same thing and stupidly expected a different result. Well, that didn't work out and A is just as terrible at sleeping as W. She will not stay in her bed alone. She wakes about half an hour or so after I have managed to escape her and I have to lay with her again to resettle her (half the time she screams anyway). After doing that 3 or 4 times I usually give up around 3am and sleep in there with her just so I can get some sleep but that is just showing her if she keeps waking eventually I will stay there = not helpful.
This next kid is going to get a rude shock if it plans on having hourly feeds at night or wants to sleep with me, cos it just isn't happening.