We aim for a bedtime of roughly 7pm depending on when he wakes up from his last nap and how long he can last. We bath him, which he generally really enjoys (unless we push it too long and he's too tired), then take him into our bedroom with white noise, shh sounds where we give him a baby massage gently blow the hairdryer on him, which we discovered seems to help keep him calm. Then we put him his sleeping bag with his arms out (we used to have his arms in but he always managed to wriggle his arms up and this made nighttime feeding very difficult). At this point he normally begins screaming. He goes from completely happy to angry screaming within a few minutes once he knows we are trying to get him to sleep. We then take it in turns to hold him in our arms shhing him and rocking him and this often takes up to an hour, normally with relentless screaming as well as him writhing around curling up, then straightening out his body as though he's trying to escape. Eventually he tends to conk out, presumably from exhaustion, and after about 20 minutes of knowing he's asleep, we transfer him to his sleepy head in a next-to-me crib. He then has his longest stretch of sleep (it used to often be 5/6 hours but now is more often 3/4 hours) before waking. At this point he feeds (poorly) and then the process of screaming and rocking him back to sleep starts again. Then he generally won't sleep more than 2 hours at a time and each time he wakes we have the angry screaming and writhing around. We've read lots about putting them down drowsy, but he just doesn't have this phase - he's goes from happy and awake, to angry screaming and then eventually conks out. But we're worried about these prolonged periods of intense crying and the fact that holding him doesn't calm him down. We've tried putting him down later but he gets overtired and starts screaming because of that. Any tips? We're going mad, as nothing calms him down.