"I can't keep up and I can't back down..."

This is my daughter..Gorgeous right? 10 months old Sunday and every bit mommy's shadow. I LOVE my daughter. She is smart,sweet,beautiful, and the light of my life. I adore her. But I've been staying home with her for 10 months and I'm slightly restless. You see, my daughter is clingy. She hates to be put down unless I'm right beside her, she sleeps in our bed-and only if I'm holding onto her, she doesn't even like going to her daddy if she wakes up at night...It's been rough. I'm getting a little worn down lately, it's hard never having alone time. It causes tension with my guy, a house that's a mess, and a frazzled me. I don't ever want to feel like that about my daughter...she is honestly the very best thing that's ever happened to me. So what do I do? I'm worried about trying to sleep train her for her crib because it's looking like it's going to be a huge crying adventure..and I hate to see my baby cry. I don't know how to make her more independent but still secure that mommy loves her and isn't leaving.

The Crib Chronicles:part 1

We finally moved into our new house last night!! It's going to be a fresh start for us and with that fresh start we thought the princess should start sleeping in her crib. From the time we found out about her I knew she would go straight to the crib when she was born, and the crib was the first purchase we made. We had decided no co-sleeping or bassinets or even the baby Moses. But the princess had other plans..the very first night in the hospital she wouldn't sleep in the bassinet for us. She would in the nursery but I wanted her in my room. But everytime we went to lay her down she would scream and scream and as exhausted as I was from giving birth,I held her in my arms all night while we slept in the bed. After that we tried the bassinet at home but she wouldn't stay and I couldn't get up at night to pick her up from the bassinet because of complications from her birth. So she stayed. We've tried a few times to get her sleeping on her own but no luck,even for naps. So new house, new start. At 9:30 I fed her and laid her down in the crib, 3 tries later she was still waking up and throwing a huge fit. 10:30 fiancé tries 4 times with no luck. We kept trying until midnight and got nowhere. So we decided we would bring in the crib mattress beside ours..she wasn't having it. After 3 hours of trying she ended up back on our bed. We are going to try again tonight and hope it goes better. I'm feeling pretty depressed about this whole thing. How do people do this without using cry it out??


How can you say no to this?