Sleep consultant/cranial osteopath

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Has any one used either of these with success to get 9 month old to sleep better?

Our DS feeds to sleep around 7/7:30 and within 2/3 hours wakes up. This then carries on all the way through the night till he is ready for the day between 6/6:30am.

It's the screaming that comes with it. It's relentless and to hear it sounds as if he is in pain, which he isn't.
We have even tried giving him feeds to send him back to sleep (he ages it then screams after)
We have tried co sleeping
Rocking
Shushing and patting
CC
Giving calpol as last resort

This has been going on for around 3/4 weeks now and me and DH are suffering from lack of sleep. DS has never been a fantastic sleeper put apart from the 4 month regression, has always been at a level that's manageable.

We are at the end of our options now

I haven't used either, but what a sleep trainer would say to you would probably be

• stop feeding to sleep
• night wean
• cot in baby's room
• teach baby to go from fully awake to fully asleep in the cot
• make going to sleep non-negotiable and no optional or something you give up on
• be consistent in how you deal with bedtime, night wakes and naptimes
• have a nap schedule
• ensure daytime gives baby just sleep to not be overtired but not too well rested so that baby is very ready for night time sleep.

I would teach healthy independent sleep in a different way to that. But I am less driven by needing immediate results. Sleep consultants by the nature of their commercial business cannot play the long-game.

I would have the cot next to my bed. Do in-cot cuddling and settling using independent asleep tools (dummy and comforter ) but also my touch reassurance given freely throughout the night.

I would encourage a lot more daytime sleep than a sleep trainer would, encouraging a very well rested baby rather than restricting naps to a schedule. I would give loads of in-cot help to sleep, making sleep as easy as possible with any independent sleep prop that helps.