Oh ladies I am so in your boat too!!! Oh my head! Trying to wean him not to have to be carried ALL day long. You're so right; it throws off the entire group! But, I see small improvement...now it's about 5 seconds between starting to cry again...yesterday about 2?!?! Baby steps. With mine it seems to be an issue of when all of the other kids are around (I kept him awake a bit longer after the rest went down today and he was crawling around, happily playing...as long as I stayed in one spot, on the floor). Trying the playpen tomorrow...pretty active guy...dunno.