still hoping.... my dd who is approaching 8 months has only just, in say, the last couple of weeks, settled down with her sleeping.... she is up around 2 hours, sometimes 3 at the moment, then goes down for a sleep. Prior to this, and from about the age of 6 weeks, she was up for HOURS AND HOURS... i could not get her to sleep at all.... she only slept for half an hour to 45 minutes and in the end i accepted this was all i was going to get.... then, gradually, and it did feel like it took forever, but she gradually improved, and has now been known to have 2.5 hour naps on occassion.... just get thru it the best way you can.... i would definitely only try keeping a 4 week old awake for about an hour, but as i said, sometimes it is impossible and they will not sleep.... the one thing that saved my sanity was a fisher price cradle swing... for weeks that was the only thing she slept in.