My 8 month old is waking, in the early part of the night sometimes hourly for feeds, later maybe 2 hourly. Usually I'm so tired by about 3am that I put her in our bed. Then she sleeps fine.
She goes to bed at 6pm every night. I feed her, read her a story then put her down awake and she sucks her thumb and falls asleep. On a good night she won't wake until 9pm but recently it's been 730, 830,9, 10 etc. I try not to feed her every time but she screams hysterically, if my husband goes in it's even worse. I've tried to cuddle her, rock her, sit quietly, take her into another room. Nothing works! Just feeding.
She has 2 naps a day which she goes down fine for. I feed her after her nap, never to go to sleep.
She has slept 8-10 hours on a handful of occasions, I now wish i'd kept a minute by minute diary of those days so I could reinact them exactly!
I think maybe me putting her in bed with us is making things worse as it might be confusing her, she might just always want to sleep there. I really don't know but I'm so tired that I can't not do it it's the only way I get a few hours of sleep.
She's such a happy, chilled baby during the daylight hours and then everything changes at night.
Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated. And the crying has started again...
Thanks