2 hours to get to sleep

[littleanimal]

DD is almost 4 months old and it has always been a struggle getting her to sleep. She hasn't slept in the house during the day since she was 3 weeks old. I have to take her for walks in the pram to get all her naps (1 hour in the morning, 2-3 hours over lunch and then 30-45mins late afternoon). She wakes if I take the pram back home (we live in an upstairs flat). Our evenings were hell until a few weeks ago as she had terrible colic and would scream until midnight, when I could feed or rock her to sleep. Now we have the problem that we take on average 2 hours to get her down in the evening, after a bath and feed, using lots of rocking and shushing. She's obviously tired - crying and rubbing eyes. The last 2 nights we have tried pick up/put down (Baby Whisperer) but it's just made her hysterical and we've resorted to feeding her to sleep. Does anyone have any advice on how to get her to sleep. We would love our evenings back and I would love to be able to stay at home during the cold weather!

My DD's similar she'll have good feeds and then playfull mucking about snack feeds, we still have a bottle at bed time which is a hang over from mixed feeding thanks to fussy HV early on, but I have to say at least that means she gets a big load before sleeping, ebm if I can manage it or ebm and then formula. She slept today but only after a screaming fit as I tried to get her to sleep in her bed, eventually only by feeding her and keeping on whenshe woke and cried every 20 mins, just what the books say not to do but then they never read the books, and I figure at least she slept and it wasn't in the sling on the move!

Sorry for my absence for a couple of days. It's a comfort to see that others are in our boat! Worst night ever last night. Settled by 8pm - so quicker than usual. Then awake 11.15-11.45, 12.15-1.00, 1.50-3.00,then up for the day a 5. Managed to get her to doze/feed with me in bed until 7. I ended up feeding her to sleep each time, although I have no idea how much hunger played a part in any of this. I'm worried that my breast milk isn't enough for her any more, but she won't take a bottle. Feeding and sleeping are so inter-related. Is it a growth spurt? Are we just putting her to bed too early - she is tired when we put her down.I can't cope with this much longer.

oh hun, feeling for you - we also had a bad night too, she was asleep by 8 but woke at 1.15 and then awake for 2 hours until eventually fed to sleep from 3 till 6, then again from 6.30 till 8 and she's fallen asleep on me again but i doubt it will last more than 10 mins.I've ordered an automatic swing to see if this will help napping, no idea what to do with her waking for 2 hours plus when she does as she's just not interested in sleeping, i guess some babies wake to feed and go back to sleep but not mine!I'm not doing anything different to the wonderful week she was sleeping longer.I try her bedtime routine which is still working and the only positive at the moment but she just screams.We just have to believe things will improve, i keep reading no cry sleep solutions but no obvious answer or things to try.