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can the room be darkened? white noise? lovey? a stroller nap?

you're in the midst of the famous 9 month sleep regression and she may grow out of it herself.

i found that a strong routine has always helped. ours was sleep sack, books, pat back/rock while singing twinkle little star, white noise, lights out.

@mrsjazz: we just put garbage bags up with painter's tape if you need a temporary solution. we've done that when we traveled!

the routine was so ingrained both charlie and olive have always slept well when we've traveled.

once we start the routine, olive usually starts yawning. we do the same thing in the same order every day. and 20 minutes of rocking is too long. we've been rocking olive to sleep lately (she was previously sleep trained for 8 months but sickness threw her off), and it usually takes a couple minutes at most.

also did you see my sock trick on the swarm post about sleep? i keep a sock filled with rice in olive's crib and we put it on her back so that she thinks it's our hand. it works so well!