Ffs go to sleep

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Aaarrgghh - wtf is wrong with Dd2? She'll be 6 months months next week and for the past 2 weeks she's just stopped sleeping.
(apart from on me but with DD1 who's 4 in the bed now chance of co-sleeping)
Previously she woke once around 4:30 or at 1:30 & 4:30 if in growth spurt & occasionally slept through completely & now she's waking practically every hour.

Please help me - I'm at breaking point & even started to get cross with her bless her.
I've given her teeth stuff in the hope it's that but no actual real sign apart from her chewing everything that moves.
Her daytime sleep is all over the place now as well. She'll sleep in the pram or on me but won't transition into crib at all.

What have I done wrong? How have I broken her? She used to be a brilliant sleeper and now this.
Any ideas?

They all seem to go through transitions from 4 - 8 months. Everything is changing so much for them. Doubt you've broken her

What was your routine before? And crucially, how does she get to sleep?

What does she want when she wakes up? Is she hungry? Or she just wants a cuddle? How long have u let her cry for?

My 4 month old started waking every hour, it has gradually improved. Hang in there

Mine did this at 6 months, after sleeping through for months beforehand. I did a LOT of reading and everything suggested I needed to work on putting her down awake. So I spent 2 weeks working hard to have her self settle. Once successfully going in to her cot awake she continued to wake hourly. After about 5 weeks she just went back to waking once or twice and has been a great sleeper since about 8 months. So I know that's not very helpful but it did pass. I think if I was doing it over I would probably just do whatever made life easiest which in my case would have been feeding to sleep and co sleeping. Although I know when I was dealing with the misery I wanted to throttle anyone who told me to just go with it! I did take some tips from the no cry sleep solution to get her back from co-sleeping to cot sleeping which at least made me feel I was taking control of the situation.

Thank you all For sharing.
It seems to be the 45 min sleep cycle where she's not settling into the deep sleep when she stirs.
Routine tweaked a little bit recently to bring bedtime forward a bit so I now give her the bedtime bottle while her sister has bedtime story rather than after On her own.

She seemed to settle herself better than I could til recently and would just talk herself to sleep. Babble babble babble - gone. I would stay in the room with her and rock the crib every 5 mins and normally it was under 10 mins, however this is what is not happening anymore as she is getting upset when laid down so I am mostly feeding her to sleep & putting her in asleep.
She's definitely not always hungry although at the moment if she won't settle with some patting I offer her bf and she never says no but comfort sucks, sometimes it's like she's desperately trying to sleep rubbing eye, shaking head side to side and just can't.
She's getting too big for the crib now, so maybe I'll put her into cot in her own room and deal with it there since it can't really get much worse anyway.

I moved my 6 month old who was pretty similar into her own big cot in her own room last week and she has gone back to 1 night waking...think we were waking each other up before. She also now sleeps with her arms spread wide out and loves the space so maybe your wee one will be the same.

I totally understand what you are going through my dd has just turned 9 months and has been waking hourly for a good 3 months now.
I tried everything including the no cry sleep solution book which worked for a bit but just went back to normal after a while.
It's nothing you have done wrong and it's so frustrating isn't it.
But after lots of encouragement from my friends I have now started controlled crying (which I tried my hardest to avoid by the way) it's not for everyone but I can honestly say it's the best thing I've ever done. She now wakes once a night and I will go in give her a quick comfort and she will settle herself back to sleep.
I feel like a new woman!
Hope you get it sorted whatever you do I know how hard sleep deprivation is

Well she did brilliantly in her cot on night one just waking for milk x 2, had a lovely long nap in there on Fri pm Inc settling with patting not feeding so I thought we were laughing. In fact it was a false hope & last night was horrific again.
Fingers crossed for tonight - I think she's fundamentally a good sleepers unlike DD1 who even at 4 is very active moving about and shouting in her sleep.
Thanks for your help x

Have you heard Tim Minchin's song 'Lullaby' - it's got swearing in so don't google it if you are easily offended.

You have absolutely everyone's sympathies. I have no words of wisdom though I am afraid :(