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Ooooh, yah a big poop should do it.

Do you have an exercise yoga ball? That helped us. I held our little one horizontally and bounced her with white noise in the first 5 months. No eye contact, until her eyes got heavy and fall asleep.

Ugh, I'm so sorry! LO woke up crying at 5am and I thought, "I'll let her cry it out..." Yeah, she cried for a whole hour. When I FINALLY went to rescue her, it turns out she has a crazy poo explosion in her diaper. Poor girl.

P.S. - What do you consider to be crying? When I went to rescue LO, she has zero tears. She was just yelling for me, I guess. But without crying, I don't count it as "crying". Am I wrong?

@Rubies: I wonder the same thing. I tried to let her CIO for a nap yesterday and she was screaming bloody murder but there were no tears.

I don't know how you New Yorkers raise babies without cars! Car rides are always our go to thing if my LO won't go to sleep.

I wish I could help! We're having sleep problems with our almost 5 month old. I'm out of creative ideas and almost outta hope! Good luck to ya

The only thing that worked for us was co-sleeping and now LM won't get out of our bed! I definitely don't suggest going that route. I noticed that LM does get startled (then scared) easily so she would wake up in fits every hour or so when sleeping by herself in the crib. She likes the comfort of me and Papa Marbles nearby. She even grabs onto our arms and faces while she is sleeping for security. My parents told me I was the same way.

You might want to try the bouncy exercise ball, if you are desperate. I found that tip on a board and never saw it in a print book. Anyway, it was my husband's lifesaver...mine was nursing. Also she liked to suck on my pinky in the very young months. Weird as it may sound. Now my husband uses the car if need be, or jiggles her like he's playing the guitar with her. The ball was a necessity for the first 6 months but after that, not so much. She likes to roll it around still so it's a good investment.

If she's up from 6pm-midnight, could you just have her stay up instead of trying to fight it? It seems like you're doing all the right things to encourage a sleepy environment, so if she's just not tired, maybe wear her as you go about your chores/tasks? You are usually up from 6pm to midnight, anyways, right?

Whenever E was like that, I'd just put him on my back in the baby carrier and carry on with my chores. Nothing like a housework routine of vacuuming and washing dishes to bore him to sleep. And if he was still awake, at least he was content and I'd gotten stuff done.

My son was like that for the entire 6.5 months after he was born. No matter how early or late we start his bedtime routine, he would never finally stay asleep until close to midnight. This occurred every single night until we finally sleep trained him. It seems like ages ago now but am going through sleep training currently with our second child. It's not any easier, emotionally. Hopefully Olive will be able to sleep better on her own.