Hi All,
This is my 3rd baby (& I consequently feel like I should know better, but I don't!), and she is a right little pickle in the sleep department. She has never slept for much longer than 3 or 4 hours at any one time (did go through a phase of sleeping for 5hrs at a time but it didnt last long), and she has now deteriorated down to waking every 2 hours through the night, and I'm knackered, to say the least!
I know that she is waking out of habit / comfort sucking (she latches on, and just waits for the milk, if none came, I'm sure she'd just stay latched on using me as a dummy quite happily). A feed then settles her again for around 2 hours, when she wakes again.
I have tried controlled crying, sitting in room by cot & rubbing her back / tummy - but doing this for 3 hours continuous screaming still doesnt really send her back to sleep, and the rest of the night is terrible disturbed sleep.
I'm totally at a loss what to do - I did wonder whether she was teething, but nurofen / calpol before bed doesnt make much difference either.
Does anyone have any great ideas that I havent already tried about how to break this pattern and make her sleep cycles last longer than 2 hours? Or, failing that, just some sympathy & 'it won't last' sleep success stories 
....??