That sounds nice Rach, probably similar to what we are going to do.

Well I am officially over it! I'm at work but can't be stuffed as I've had no sleep yet again I can't take any more. Night after night after night of sleeplessness and I'm a wreck. I broke out in severe hives yesterday afternoon - I was literally covered from head to toe (including palms and soles of my feet... wtf??) with huge blotchy itchy welts. I've never had hives before, hadn't eaten anything different or done/used anything different so I can only assume they were stress related. leila was a handful during the day then wouldn't sleep last night. She goes to sleep fine just wakes up once, twice... 20 times a night! Sometimes for a mintue or two, sometimes (such as last night) for hours on end. It was 4am before I managed to close my eyes and by that stage i was so stressed and itchy that I couldn't sleep anyway. DH tries his best to settle her but she just wont settle for him. Day care are having more and more trouble with getting her to sleep which makes things worse at home too. So tonight I am doing controlled crying. I don't care that many people on here disagree with it, I can see that her problems are behavioural and I need to do something about it before I really do lose the plot. Nothing I have done so far has worked so maybe I need a harder approach. I have the numbers for karitane and tresillian so I will call them if I need help to get through this. Enough is enough I simply can't deal with it anymore, she has been like this for months now. I feel like such a failure. I feel like somehow I have brought this upon myself