[widgit]

We are home from Guatemala with both babies as of 11/3! They are wonderful and beautiful, of course.

Our son sleeps pretty much through the night in the crib. Our daughter is a different story and we need some advice or mom and dad are going to blow a gasket.

She is just over 5 months old and we know that she co-slept with the foster mother. We are afraid of co-sleeping. We've tried putting her to sleep and then laying her down in the crib and going back to repeat the process every 30 min - hour when she wakes for two nights now.

We are hoping there is an option besides ferberizing because when she wakes and cries, her cry is not just your typical 5 month old cry, it is one of dis-attachment (is that a word?). She cries hard until she shakes and if we let her go for a couple of min, her cry will continue to escallate to a point that sometimes it takes more than 40 min to calm her to the point where she stops shaking. She looks visibly terrorized.

She will fall asleep in our arms relatively easily.

Pictures and a pick-up story are forthcoming (after mom & dad find a way to get some sleep).