The solution this week to get James to sleep in his cot is this:

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Its called the Tomy Moonlight Dreamshow. We bought it on Saturday for 10 quid and it has been worth every pence. It is voice activated so everytime James moans it switches on. It projects a slideshow of Winne The Pooh characters and bees and butterflies in the ceiling above the cot, it also has a gorgeous tune that sounds like you have just opened a jewellery box. It is very soothing. And James is happy to watch it and put himself back to sleep. He still needs a feed at around midnight and 5am, although the Health Visitor has told us that he should not need to feed at night, so last night I just did 10 minute feeds, tonight I will do 9 minute feeds and tomorrow night I will do a 8 minute feed, etc.

So this is what works for this week, hopefully it will last longer than that.... but he is a baby, so I know that it will just start working and then something will happen and mess it up.... oh well, Yay! for a weeks sleep, I even had 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep last night......