Is this normal?!

[BonfireNight1993]

I had a very easy sleeper in my first baby, so I've arrived at baby number two kind of naive about sleep. She's 19 weeks and sleeps well once she's down (one-ish wake-up for a feed around 2.30/3am). But getting her down is just hell. I do a nice routine - bath, massage, pyjamas, bottle. But the moment I try and put her down, she screams. She screams if I cuddle her and shush her, she screams if she's in the cot and I stroke her and pat her, she screams if I leave the room and hide on landing.

She fights naps in the cot, only likes napping in the pram but will nap in the cot eventually with a lot of support, so I don't think she's overtired. Is there anything else I might be messing up?!

Completely normal. She doesn't want to be away from you in the cot. Mine always cries at bedtime, she's 18 months. And she never napped in her cot until we got a floor bed at 14 months now she will nap there but has to be cuddled to sleep. I wouldn't even bother with cot naps, if the pram works, use that, why make your life difficult!

She's around the age of the 4 month sleep regression, so this behaviour can be.

She's too young for separation anxiety to have really kicked in though. There must be something else about the cot set up that she doesn't like.

Have you tried a dummy or small comforter?

@bouncingblob Dummy yes - but she tends to pull it out. A comforter is a good idea, I'd assumed she was too young, but maybe this is a reasonable age?