Be gentle with me, I haven't had more than 2 hours sleep in months…
So DD2 is 8 months old. She is pretty easy in the day. She self settles for naps and is fairly easy going. She is big for her age. She is exclusively breast fed. She is not really eating that much solids yet. She'll have some finger food but doesn't let me spoon feed her.
She has two naps in the day, around 9am and 1pm. One is usually 1.5 hrs, the other usually 45 mins. She has these in her cot if we are at home, or in the pushchair/sling if out and about.
At night she has a good bedtime routine. She has a change, feed, and a lullaby. She puts herself to sleep in her cot at 6.30pm. (She won't stay up later than this or she gets hysterically tired).
She wakes about every 2 hours throughout the night. About 4-5 feeds a night. She has a feed, a fairly short one (5-10 minutes) and then I put her back down awake and she self settles back to sleep. She isn't hard to put back to sleep. But she wakes up again 2 hrs later. Boyfriend has tried rocking her etc which occasionally works. Mostly she is chewing his arm off and seems very hungry. So mostly I end up feeding her. Plus it's quicker.
I am very tired.
She has been ill (one virus after another) for the best part of 6 weeks so I didn't want to do anything till she was better. She has been well for a week now. Sleep is just the same.
Considering sleep training but don't want to do anything too harsh. Not sure where to start. My first daughter would never self settle at all, and would sleep long stretches through the night, and yet everything I read seems to say a good nap routine, a good bedtime and being able to self settle are the keys to night time sleep… so confused.
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Be gentle with me - very tired mum of 8 month old
weebairn · 29/05/2015 09:33
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How about smearing mashed food like stews and stuff onto sticks of finger food? Beef or chicken stew lumped onto a rice cake or a sweet potato wedge. Or my latest invention banana and almond butter spread.
It does sound like she has good sleep habits, fairly similar to my 7 month old who in the last couple of weeks has gone from 2 hour or less wakeups to two within a 12 hour stretch 
which I thought would never ever happen.
The tonsillitis will have set her back too but hopefully as she eats more she'll go lpnger?
What about the messy approach to weaning - purees but without spoons.
Spread something like porridge all over the highchair tray, all over her hands, maybe even pat some onto her lips. Then leave her to it to grab handfuls or smear it all over her face. The hope being that a fair amount goes in her mouth as she sucks her hand.
Bath afterwards, obviously! 
I believe that your issue here is not a sleep issue, it is a weaning issue.
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