Help! Co-sleeping 7mo won’t go in cot!

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My DD2 is usually a really good sleeper. Good length day time naps and sleeps most nights 9pm to 7am with only one or two wakes for bottles but straight back to sleep. The downside is that she only does this whilst cuddled up in our bed or on someone. She will nap in her buggy on a walk if she’s tired enough but will often wake up as soon as it’s not moving.

We’ve tried putting her down whilst awake and whilst asleep but neither has worked so far. We’ve tried picking her up immediately when she cries and leaving her to fuss for a bit with us there before picking her up. She’s not the sort of baby who calms herself after a few minutes. She cries and cries and cries and would cry until she was sick if left I think. The best we’ve managed was a day of a couple of half hour naps in her cot but she then started refusing immediately and waking herself up.

Anyone got any tips for getting a Velcro baby in their own cot? I’m not up for controlled crying or cry it out methods.

She’s just been asleep in her cot for 40 minutes. That’s the longest we’ve had. She woke up in quite a rage though.

My dc never went in their cot. I tried everything going apart from leaving them to cry which I don't agree with. When I tried shushing/patting dd1 without picking them her out of the cot she eventually cried so much she was sick. I felt awful.

We coslept until they were 18 months of so when they went happily into a bed with very little fuss.

There was a point where I ended up putting a futon on the floor of the dc's room so I could get her to sleep and then sneak out for a few hours adult time, would something like that work for you?

So DH took on the battle to get her into her own cot last night. She slept between 1 and 4:15 (ish) in her cot so that’s pretty good going. It took a long time and multiple attempts to get her down each time though so DH didn’t get huge amounts of sleep.