We had this sort of problem - between midnight and 4am was time-to-scream-lots. He did grow out of the screaming in month 3! And then it took another month to bring bedtime back to midnight rather than 4am...We now have a champion sleeper - there is hope.
Can you do split shifts with your DH, so that you go to bed really early (like when Caleb does), and he has bub and wakes you when he wants to go to bed - that way you'll be better able to cope with the night shift.
A bath, sleepy music, lots of BF (every hour in the evenings), much rocking, massaging out the farts all helped. We had a 2 hour rule as well, and would swap after 2 hours, which was the limit of the amount of being yelled at either of us could take.
And have something for you to do, so that you're not bored as well as being screamed at - jigsaw puzzles, the late night cricket broadcast, reading online books, anything at all!
We didn't seriously try "crying it out" - we learnt that if he didn't settle with a few minutes of wingeing then he was only going to get more upset and irate if left.
Maybe try more day sleeping rather than less - you might at least have a happy awake baby rather than a surly one. Do you co-sleep all the time (ie are her day-sleeps in a different place, with different smells and people than her night sleeps??) Any chance that not co-sleeping might be worth a try?
Another thought - have you tried wrapping much more loosely (maybe even with arms free)? We found that he needed to be able to really wriggle to sleep happily.
big hugs
Kate
Last edited by Kmn; October 22nd, 2008 at 08:04 AM.
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