How can I get her to settle in the cot? Will PU/PD work?

[Pozzled]

I'll try to keep this short, but I'm really reaching the end of my tether and just don't know what to do any more.

DD2 is 7 months. Always been very hard to settle to sleep, as a newborn she had to be rocked or carried in the sling.

She will now settle in only three ways:
*Feeding to sleep (bf) but if I put her down she wakes after 10-15 minutes
*In the sling or pushchair
*Co-sleeping

This means that she gets very little day time sleep unless we're out and about, and evenings are a nightmare where she wakes every 15-20 min and we often end up bringing her downstairs again.

I really don't like controlled crying. I tried PU/PD just now but after picking her up 25 times she wasn't getting any calmer- if anything she screamed louder when I put her down. I'm willing to persevere if it will really work- or is there something else I should be doing?

Please help!

Watching this thread, I've got one just like this but only 3.5 months. Don't fancy CC either but would like to get it smashed sooner rather than later.
Sorry no advice

I found that with DD1. if I tried to return each time it wound her up. I did do CC in the end it did work a treat even if I found it v difficult to do.

Pozzled if you want to do PU/PD it WILL take a lot of time for at least a few days to a week. Patience is the most important thing here and you need to stick to it for it to work.

Leave it a few weeks dd did this at the same age I read ncss and it was so good it worked before I even really tried it or must just have been a faze