Long story short - my 9 month old has always been a crappy sleeper (overnight and naps) and I'm kind of at my wit's end. I don't really know what I expect the doctor to say, but I'm contemplating making an appointment to discuss sleep. Or paying a sleep consultant to help. I really just want someone to tell me what to do.

FWIW - we did CIO a few months ago and it worked....for a few weeks. Then he got sick, and the holidays came, etc. And his sleep has slid back downhill so that he's waking 2x nightly and refusing to nap unless I rock him to sleep. I've let him cry in his crib for naps this week but he never falls asleep. At nighttime, he falls asleep on his own okay but still wakes up a couple times at night