Hi Girls, sorry this will be quick as I have a grumpy cold ridden baby on my hands! I'm so friggin exhausted right now. Thanks for all your tips, I'm trying all of them and there's not much else I can do, already tried the elevated mattress, doing the vaporizer, the suction thing (which she absolutely hates and upsets her which makes her nose worse when she cries) - I swear I'm going to poke her brains out cause she moves at the wrong time. Anyway, I just have to ride it out, no sleep for me for a while I fear.

Hi Tilda - until about 4 weeks ago Amelia was still being rocked and cuddled to sleep, to teach her to self settle I was dreading it but it was much easier than I thought and it only took a week and she was doing it on her own. I just put her down - on her tummy as that's her comfiest position and pat her bum and say shhhhhh shhhh until she'd fall asleep - at first she fought it so I just kept at it and I also use the dummy but you don't have to do that, it was quite frustrating at times and at the start was taking me up to an hour but by the 4th/5th day I was down to about 5/10 minutes and then eventually I'd just put her down pat her bum and say goodnight etc and walk out with her just having her music softly in the background and her cot mobile or aquarium thing on. Give it a go and persevere, it's worth it believe me, she will do it. I thought it was impossible as well but it's not. Good luck.

Oh and Kawazuki, are we friends on FB? Can you send me a request if not, Alison Lewkowski. Thanks!

Sorry girls, really have to go, I've had hardly any time to post or get on FB properly at all this week other than to read, not write! I just want this cold to be over with - 2 colds in 4 weeks plus the gastro earlier on, not fair poor thing! Love you all. xx