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At that age my DD had good neck control and loved being held up and bounced. We got her a jumperoo and propped up pillows (since she was too small even on the lowest setting). I think it helped tire her out!

What kind of state is she in when you try to first get her to sleep and what happens when you're bouncing does she fall asleep? Have you tried pick up/put down? I can't remember...

@SugarplumsMom: this is funny, my DD took all her naps in her jumperoo until she turned one!

DS is almost 12 weeks and I feel better that I'm not alone in this! I have nothing to add just commiserate. I left the library yesterday with a bunch of sleep books.

@plantains: that is adorable!

@grizz: Throw them at me as well. She would flip herself over anyway. And another stone cause she has two lovey's in the crib too.

Hang in there!! R need to be ssh'd, and pack her back to go to sleep as well. I never had an exerciser ball otherwise we would have been in where you are. I thought that I was going to lose my mind having to go ssh over and over again.

Day care helped R, she had to learn to sleep on her own. She did sleep in the swing at day care but never would even tolerate our's at home. But the weekends was the same thing, we had to hold her to get her to sleep and would wake up if we put her down. It was awful. She eventually grew out of it and then we sleep trained her.

@Foodnerd81: Yes! Back when we still had to hold her till she was dead asleep before we could put her in the crib at night, I got sick. So many times I would cough and it woke her up. It was awful. Hang in there Momma!! This too shall pass.

I knock mine out with a boob, hold her for 5-10 minutes then transfer her on to her tummy in the cot. I started nursing to sleep when she stop settling herself at six months.

I take her into her nursery and, holding her at the window, I close the black out blind and draw the curtains. While I'm doing this I say "bye bye Mister Sunshine, I will see you after my nap". I then flick on the white noise machine and lie her in her cot, on her sleep sack. Without making any eye contact, I zip her in and pop her dummy into her mouth, waiting until she takes a couple of sucks. I then say "sweet dreams" and leave the room. She usually spits her dummy out and cries once - and then I pop back in and reinsert it, without making eye contact - and then she falls asleep. Although her new thing is to lie there murmuring softly and I haven't got a clue what to do when that happens!!! The really effective bit, for us, is the dummy. As soon as I can get her to take a few sucks on that thing her eyes start to close.

I know a lot of bees are against it, but we did CIO. It really wasn't that painful. The longest he cried was 20 minutes (with checks). He wakes up at night but usually either goes right back to sleep or plays with his feet for a while and then puts himself to sleep that way.

@Cherrybee: We did it last week. He was 20 weeks.

I used to have to jump up and down with DD in my arms or walk her around the house for an hour every time she needed to go to sleep. It was exhausting.

She did finally get better at around 3 months (I only had to walk her for a full hour at bedtime, and only 15 minutes or so for naps) and then again at 6 months (I could actually rock her to sleep in the rocking chair!). My only suggestion is to start a good bedtime routine now, so that she starts picking up on cues to go to sleep. Also, walks in the baby carrier often put DD to sleep at that age and occasionally car rides (if I timed it right), and I would sometimes do that just so I didn't have to walk her to sleep. Otherwisen I just have hugs for you. It does get better! Some kids just need a lot more help sleeping than others (my second was much easier to put to sleep).

@Smurfette: @rahlyrah: Did you guys do sleep training for the initial fall asleep part or for the wakeups after? We are at the point id sleep training before I return to work in 2 weeks. Our problem isn't the initial fall asleep.... It's the frequent wakeups all night. I thought it was just the 4 months regression but it's been 3 weeks now and no sign of change. She's only eating twice out if the 6 or more wakeups so it's not hunger or a growth spurt.

It's brutal.

@Smurfette: cry it out extinction method, or with checks? She used to sleep 8pm-2am, then up again at 5am, then up every hours after that. And I thought THAT was bad.

Then 3 weeks ago she started waking up every 1.5-2 hours all night long. UGH

This week it's like last night: LO went down at 8 and woke up to eat at 11 (actually ate), then slept till 2:15 and ate again (4 oz), then woke up at 3:30, 4:45, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00...didn't want to eat at any of those until 7 am where she drank a whopping 2 oz. So I'm not sure if after the 2 amish wakeup we starting letting her cry? Or if we try to extend her first wakeup back to where she was (even though she eats 3-4 oz then).

It's frustrating.