DD is 8 months old. She used to be a good sleeper, slept through (8 hours plus) from nine weeks until about sixteen, when she started waking again. At first it was only once a night, then sometimes twice, then we moved house and now she's up every half an hour some nights!
Her cot is in roughly the same position in relation to our bed as it was before, it's the same cot and everything, and we've been here for months now and she's still not any more settled at night. I tried night-weaning her, but most nights it makes no difference, she just wants me to bring her into bed and let her pull my hair! So we've been co-sleeping for a while now from when I come to bed (I still put her down in her cot first) but I find I sleep even less now because I'm worrying about her coming to harm, and I find when she wakes up and won't settle its far too easy to just pull a boob out, so the night weaning has gone out of the window.
So tonight I've put her cot right up next to the bed like a co-sleeper cot, and she's gone to sleep playing with my hair through the bars. Do you think this will help her to sleep by herself again? Or will she just see it as an extension of my bed? TBH, if it wasn't for DP I would probably just take her into bed but he's bloody 6'4" and overweight and there's really not enough room for all three of us in bed.
I keep resolving to start some kind of "sleep training," and I'll put her into her cot awake and hold her hand or whatever until she falls asleep, then creep downstairs feeling like supermum. Then when she wakes, I can normally up and settle her straight back down again. It's just in the middle of the night when I'm half asleep, and she won't settle, I always just take the easy option for the sake of some sleep!