Inzi this is what Adam was like recently and it's horrible isn't it especially when they have always been so easy to settle.
Dh spent an hour cuddling him to try and get him to settle from 3-4am one night at the weekend and then eventually did controlled crying as he was at his wits end and didn't know what to do. It took 20 mins and he settled. I was really unhappy at the idea of going down this route and ending up with a stressed unhappy little boy who thought we were ignoring him but even in a book I have where the authors are totally against cc they admit that a few nights of this is unlikely to do any long term harm. We had a long discussion about what we would do the night after and basically I said I would try and do the same but wasn't sure I would be able to do it if he was really distressed. Thankfully he slept through then and has been much more settled since.
Now I have no idea if it was the 20 mins of cc that did the trick or that there was something that was upsetting him that we never got to the bottom of before it settled but if you are at the end of your tether and think you could cope with it it may be worth a try. Not sure I would have been able to cope with it if it had been me rather than dh doing it though...
Sorry thats a lot of waffle and probably not very helpful!
WWAJC glad to hear that dh has a new op date - I will keep my fingers crossed! If you get your op cancelled you have to get it done within a certain time scale and everyone is very big on targets now (sorry don't know what the time is though but I think less than a month) so fingers crossed it will happen soon even if Monday doesn't pan out...
Muppet I know just what you mean about them being so different! Adam is just so so determined - if he wants something you just can't distract him - he looks at you like 'what are you on about - I told you I wanted THAT, and THAT is what I want not that other crap you're trying to palm me off with!!!!' Sam by contrast was pretty easy going and chilled!
Polar lovely to hear from you - hope you and Zoe are well.
LES hope you're feeling better soon...
The rest of you lovely ladies hope all is going OK! Nothing exciting to report from me except as I wrote that I just realised that I don't know if I have told you that Adam can walk properly now?! I think I told you that he started to take a few lurchy steps at the end of Nov / beginning of Dec but over Christmas he started to get much more stable and now you can't stop him! He still reverts to crawling sometimes but mostly walks. One of his fave things now is 'war war!' (walk walk) then reaching for your hand to go walking. he is very cute! Also he pulls himself up on the back of Sam's top and then charges around clutching on to the back of Sam, cue much hysteria from them both! Its lovely to see...