I know that we are in the phase where nothing makes sense and we are all adjusting to each other, so this problem is likely to work itself out soon. We went through this with T too, but this is slightly different and I'd love some advice.

O is 10 months on Saturday. She came to us at 8.5 months immobile and pretty easy going. She was also recently out of the hospital and even more recently off of a NG tube, and looking back I'm sure she still didn't feel great. She rolled a little bit and could sit fairly well, but was no where near mobility. She didn't even seem to want to crawl.

Fast forward 4 weeks (so about 2 weeks ago now) and she suddenly decided that she had to keep up with T. In less than a week she went from immobile to crawling, pulling up, cruising, standing on her own and climbing. I'm not exaggerating. With this new mobility came new energy and determination. She is now extremely active, never sitting still. We thought T was active and she makes him look like a mellow guy. She moves quickly no matter what she's doing and she's happy almost all of the time. Fun, right?

My issue is that she also seems to have low sleep needs, never acts sleepy, and is getting hard to get to sleep for naps and bedtime. At first we would give her a bottle, she'd eat maybe 2 oz, and then shove us away. We would put her in the crib because she clearly didn't want to be held and she'd be asleep within 10 seconds. Miracle baby. Now she seems to be realizing that she likes being held/rocked (which is good and healthy and shows that she is beginning to form attachments) but has no idea how to settle herself with that stimulation. So we can't just set her down anymore-she pops up, stands up and screams. But we can't rock her to sleep because she can't quite fall asleep. So we usually do some combination of the two and eventually she falls asleep!

Tonight I was thinking about everything I do to help T wind down at night. Bath time, books, white noise, rocking, pacifier, quiet songs. All of these things make O hyper.

I'm hoping you all have some creative suggestions for ways to calm little miss wants-to-party-all-the-time down at night and for naps.