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Originally Posted by ngdawg
How do you put her down during the day? Do you hold her til she falls asleep or does she fall asleep by herself or when she's just tired? If you're putting her down awake for naps, but not at night, there's your problem.
Even not in pain, she'd cry if she fell asleep in your arms, then you lay her in the crib-it's the moving and waking, the not being held, etc. Maybe get her to NOT fall asleep in your arms, but instead build a bedtime routine that is different than the naptime one.
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I agree with this completely - we *never*
(ok, almost never) put our son to sleep in our arms - put him in bed awake, read him a story, kiss goodnight and leave the room/close the door. The only difference with his middle of the day sleep is no story for middle of the day sleep.
The times he wakes in the night, picking him up is the last resort - give him his pacifer and comfort him. If he continues to cry for a long period then it escalates to being picked up etc.
I also agree with the moving around - they just don't figure out they should stay in one place - which is why babies and toddlers sleep in a cage
and you have to dress them a lot more carefully, because you know the blankets really are "cot dressing"