A crying shame

Last night Oliver went to bed beautifully. He played with Julien as he lay in his cot and made little happy noises. After about 5 minutes he went to sleep.

However, he woke around three hours later at midnight, crying. He eventually had to be picked up and it took us til about 12.40am before we could go back to bed.

It's such a shame that as one problem starts to get fixed another one appears. (Back to Rubik's damned cube!) If only he would sleep through the night. He was doing so for the last few nights, despite having a cold (though a 5ml dose of Medised must have helped!). The improvement in our general health and well-being due to the uninterrupted sleep was noticable to say the last. But now we seem to be facing another stint of being woken by cries.

Once he gets to 6 months I'm sure we will not find it too hard to try "controlled crying" techniques. But right now I still feel that I don't want to leave him feeling insecure and frightened and so possibly create longer term problems (sleep or otherwise).