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LO used to do this when she was younger when she was too tired. It sounds like you are putting your LO down early enough though, so being over tired shouldn't be an issue, in the case....hmm...maybe try even a little earlier even by a few minutes and see what happens.

Yes - like she is a boxer defending her title! Trying to head her off at the pass (starting the nap process before she shows tired signs) has helped, but it's not a *sure* thing. (((hugs)))

@MamaMoose: What's worse is that my LO doesn't like to be held and will never fall asleep in our arms. Now that's she's older, we'll just plop her in her crib and shut the door behind us, and she'll pass out. But if we try to hold her, she'll keep fighting it.

When she was younger though, it took a lot of holding and rocking (5 S's) to get her to sleep and then we had to verrrrrrry gently set her in her crib once she was out.

I don't think 12 weeks is too early to learn how to fall asleep on her own...especially if she is fighting your efforts. If she's trying to break free of your arms when you're rocking her to sleep that's telling you something, right?

My LO started resisting all of our efforts to get him to nap at 6/7 weeks old so we just started putting him down awake. We would let him fuss for up to however many weeks old he was (so 12 weeks = 12 minutes) and if he was crying hard we'd go in right away to rub his back or pick him up and shush him then we would put him back down. I don't think it ever took him longer than 10 minutes to fall asleep though.

But again, if she is fighting everything you're doing to get her to fall asleep, there's no harm in seeing if maybe she wants to just fall asleep on her own.

Yup! He knows the instant we go into his room its to tonight haha. I've tried different awake times, putting down drowsy, Eric etc now its stressful bc he sleeps way better in arms and only 25 mins in crib- so I go back and forth on how to make sure he's getting sleep but not making it so hell only sleep on me. Babies are hard!! I almost wish I didn't have the video monitor. I used to think he slept 35 minutes but now I can see he's just rolling around quietly at the end with his eyes open (but doesn't actually fall back asleep)