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He doesn't have a cold or a runny nose right? My kids never sleep well lying flat if they're sick... Have they tried white noise or a musical mobile on his crib? Make dad get up so boobs aren't (always) an incentive to wake?

I would try moving him to his own room first.

She could try this:
http://www.amazon.com/The-No-Cry-Sleep-Solution-Through/dp/0071381392/

Our LO went through this. We got her to sleep through the night but then at some point she stopped and kept waking. Moving her out of our room and CIO were not options we wanted to explore at the time so we used some of the methods in this book and it helped. It took a while, so patience is key!

Would tweaking baby's daytime routine or offering more solids help? Is baby particularly active (early crawler etc)?

I would try moving the baby to his own room. He could be waking up because he's distracted by mom and dad in the room. Do they use a sound machine? Also, because he's breastfed, he could be smelling mom's milk and wanting to nurse. When he wakes up, is he wanting to nurse or just play?

The book that @mrsjazz recommended is a good one. My recommendation is also to stick it out with one type of training method for at least 1 week, don't try to change it up every day!

I know many people aren't comfortable with co-sleeping, but my LO has always had an incredibly difficult time sleeping and has always woken every hour to two hours (literally, he is now 16 months and still wakes a lot). I've done partial co-sleeping (meaning for part of the night) his entire life and finally giving in to co-sleeping is what saved me. I was going crazy constantly stressing about what to do about his sleep troubles and I finally just accepted that co-sleeping is what will work best for him for now. Of course this isn't to say that co-sleeping completely fixed all of the sleep problems, but it allowed me to get rest! Again, I totally understand if someone isn't comfortable co-sleeping, but maybe they are open to it if they don't want to go the CIO route. Lots of good luck to them!

We night weaned at 7 months which I know is pretty early, but I was certain that LO was getting enough calories during the day and I was going mad with sleep deprivation. After I stopped feeding at night it took a few more weeks of many night wakings and then he suddenly stopped and started pretty much sttn. Recently he's had some issues with night-time crawling practice, but cutting out night feeds made such a difference to his sleep.

Maybe your friend could look at cutting out a few feeds, setting a time not to feed before and trying to use other ways to get baby back to sleep before then? I would just rock him and stroke his back in his cot til he fell back to sleep - it was exhausting and feeding would have been SO much easier but it was worth it in the end and I didn't have to let him cry.

My son didn't STTN until he was 14 months old, and it was brutal for us. He nursed every time he woke up during the night, and I mean really nursed. He was in his own room, and I tried only nursing in the rocking chair and then putting him back to bed and then I tried co-sleeping, but I didn't get any sleep that way (and he still woke to nurse).

http://sleeplady.com/books/ was just recommended to me by a friend's co-worker as having been a miracle for them. It even has sleep solutions for toddlers. I am totally unwilling to do CIO, so I'm hoping this book has good options if our future LOs aren't good sleepers.

My friend's son has never STTN, even after a year old. He does sleep in his own room and has a strict, early bedtime, so he sleeps for good stretches and is a very happy baby otherwise, but he wakes several times a night and needs to be nursed to go back to sleep. My friend figures its because breastfed babies need to eat more often and he flat refuses formula, so she doesn't really have a choice. Maybe her baby just needs the calories?

@Vegmama: Hope she finds something that works for her! I kind of hesitated to suggest the room change since if she's not wanting to CIO it can be a bit tougher to accomplish (although like I said, the crib soother helped us a lot,) but I hope she finds something that works for her!