My ds is 5 weeks old and really only wants to sleep if someone is holding him. I can - just about - cope with this during the day (although showering and making lunch are often well nigh impossible if I am by myself) but the nights are really getting to me. Sometimes - usually by making him as milk drunk as it's possible to be - I can get him fast asleep enough to put in his bed but usually he wakes up the instant I put him in. He then doesn't just grizzle but very quickly moves into hysterical screaming and unless comforted by the breast he can scream for hours. I have tried various things (warming his bed before he goes into it; wearing him in a sling and transferring him and the sling into bed; singing; rocking; patting...) but nothing works. I am now trying another tactic: putting him in bed and then picking him up and comforting him when he cries before putting him straight back. According to the Baby Whisperer this method should take three days to achieve success with a baby of his age. Needless to say I've spent longer trying it although I perhaps haven't been as religious about it as necessary. Should I keep trying or should I just concentrate on devising coping methods in the hope that he will grow out of this behaviour? Incidentally, he dislikes his pram almost as much as his bed and really only settles in an upright baby carrier. I plan to take him to a cranial osteopath as, although it was not an instrumental delivery, my labour was very long as he turned OP towards transition. Sorry for the length of this post but thoughts and opinions are very much welcomed!