Arte: what a horrible time you've been having. I agree it's might be time to take some more radical steps to get the sleep sorted out. There is a continuum of techniques from comforted to controlled crying without extreme CIO methods so there may well be another method that will work for you. You know I've said a few times how W reminds me very much of one of my dear friend's sons, she also had huge issues getting him to sleep, OTT behaviour - not all the time, either, just sometimes. Turns out with him (and his brother) they both had food sensitivities. Once she got all the chemicals out of their diets (even things like corn and citrus, etc, did the whole failsafe thing) - HUGE improvement, behaviour, sleep, concentration, everything. Not sure if this is helpful but I think it's worth checking out, just because i've seen for myself what an amazing difference it made. Esp with the sleep.

Cass, so proud of you! When will you hear back from them?

Thanks for asking after me, Arte, all well here, just very busy. Have the iLs here, and went to a 2 day workshop on the weekend, then the working week rolls around, add to that the study I'm NOT doing and it makes me very busy .