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Are you using the crib for anything else but sleep? Maybe try a new calming routine with a book or a cd of soft music 10 minutes before she is schedule to go to sleep. I would also try rubbing her belly for a minute or two after putting her laying her down. Didn't have this issue with my son, so I don't have a lot of advice for you. Good luck!

Hey moms/dads,

I'm replying to share our experience, but would definetly be interested to hear how the posted situations turned out, hopefully we hear back, if not, hope my situation helps others…

Snap shot: our son is now 11 months. He peirced his 4 from teeth between 10-11 months, and figured out how to drag, then crawl, pull and stand and roll over like a mad man in his crib. Our once wonderful naps and night time routine went out the window. I was now the queen of swaddling, which worked his "difficult" time, I guess he needed the extra soothing and comfort, and since it was only once in a while…why not; and then it progressively went to every time. That's when we pulled the plug.

We were never proponents of the CIO, but now at 11 months, he's smart enough to figure it out on his own with our support. So now, every 5 minutes (nothing before unless your gutt tells you to get in there) we go in and lay him down (vs power struggling with him to lay down and go to sleep). We let him do his thing , and he lays down when he's ready and goes to sleep, and sometimes it takes 30 minutes, sometimes 10.

Now he started showing signs of seperation anxiety so we'll have to be vigilant of that and reassure as much as he needs us to with being consistent on helping him going to sleep on his own (i.e. if he freaks out, stands and bounces in his crib holding on to the rails or reaching his hands up to me, I'll pick him up, calm him, then put him in a craddle position reassuring him, and distract his attention to soothing lights or sounds and then when he starts showing the signs of sleepiness I lay him in his crib, tuck him in and walk out and we're back at square 1 if we need to be).

I can count on two hands the amount of times we brought him to our bed when he woke at 4:30-5am and wouldn't go back down, and that worked too. If we need to do it again, we'll do it.

I think the key thing is "everything is good in moderation". And for sure, everything is a phase; you'll soon be baffled by something else and think that this phase was @$%#@ all! Scuse my french Good luck to all you parents who go through this stage (some never do, and we might not with our next kid since every kid is different)!