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[verity83]

First night of Molly in portable crib=about 90% successful. It still was around midnight before I was able to settle her down enough to sleep, but she then woke up exactly three hours later at 3.30 and then at 6.30. She cried being put down the first time, but after the 3.30 feeding I made sure she was totally asleep before lying her down and not a peep.

I'd really like to sleep more myself, but I'm hungry so I'm going to take advantage of her sleeping to get some food into me, get dressed, and go for a quick walk. If she keeps to her schedule she'll wake up again at 9.30.

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[krikketgirl.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it would be helpful for you or not, but I wanted to share one trick we used with the Oldest Boy. He would cry when we put him down in the crib as well, and I had the idea that it might be a combination of going from warm Mom to cold, scentless bed. So I took a pajama shirt that I had worn and wrapped him in it when I took him up to nurse at night. When I put him back down, I made sure that there was a fold of the shirt near his cheek, so that the cold sheets didn't wake him. Voila: no jarring coldness of loss of Mom-smell...and after a week, I didn't need to use it anymore, instead just being sure that I always had a blanket that was still warm.

[butterbobbin.livejournal.com]

I have noticed that if she's not securely bundled up in a blanket she has more issues going to sleep. Tried last night to put her down without it, but she would have none of it! LOL. Of course, by morning she's kicked and flailed herself out of it, but it seems to help her at the outset.