Hi Meg,

Kaitlyn was SERIOUSLY unsettled for her first 3months...On the advice of nurses and everyone else we would let her cry for a minute and then go in and tap tap tap her ...but never pick her up ..that is what we were told!. Sometimes it would take us 1-2 hours to get her to fall alseep at night ...in ..out...in ...out ...tap tap tap !

Anyway now we have developed a good routine . We feed , Play , Bath then top up feed. Then I wrap her and she gets her dummy , then a cuddle in her room until I know she is relaxed and I pop her to bed. Then she usually wakes 45 mins later and needs to be resettled , so she usually gets a quick 5min cuddle and then she goes back into her cot and she is alseep for the night. She settles so much faster now that I give her a cuddle when she is crying rather then just tapping her and leaving her in her cot.

Have you tried wrapping and a dummy ?.I have found these two settling techniques wonderful, sometimes Kaitlyn closes her eyes as soon as the dummy goes in!