Hi there, I'm a first time mum, my DS is 15 weeks old and has always been a 'bad' sleeper. He rarely naps during the day, if I'm lucky he'll fall asleep in the car but wake up again after 5 mins when we get home. He won't self-settle for a nap during the day, I can only get him to sleep lying on my lap/chest and then only for 15 - 20 minutes at a time. His sleep pattern at night has always been around his 2 hourly feeds but in the last few weeks this has changed so that he will wake up 45 minutes after the last feed ended, regardless of how long it lasted and how much milk he took. I know he can last a decent amount of time between feeds because he usually sleeps on my DH's chest in the evening from about 9 o'clock on and he usually wakes for his first night feed at about 12:30 (which is about 15 mins after DH puts him in his cot). I'm trying to put in a roputine which see's him in his cot at about 8:30 after bath and feed but he just cries and cries (until he's covered in sweat). The last time I left him to cry for 20 mins (on advice of, and in presence of Health Visitor) he gave himself an umbilical hernia, something I want to avoid happening again! I don't have a problem with him putting on weight - he was 7lb 4 oz at birth and is now 17lb 7oz so I have no worries that sleeping through would be detrimental to his health. I need some advice on how to get him to self-settle and sleep through (or at least wake less often) as I'm really beginning to feel my faculties suffer through lack of sleep! Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.