Hi I need some advice mums please. Haven't slept properly in forever! I'm a first time mum and my daughter is 8 months old. Now she used to sleep well waking once for a feed and in her own cot and room but for the last few months she's been all over the place. She will go down for her sleep in her cot but then wake as soon as I come up to bed...which can sometimes be as early as 7pm depending on the sleep I've had. We then spend three hours trying to get her back to sleep. That's three hours with lights low, calm, soothing. Picking her up, feeding and her falling asleep in arms only to wake when I put her down again. Eventually shell crash out and sleep but we're only averaging three to four hours. Some nights I've resorted to co-sleeping although I dare not tell my HV that. Always she ends up in our room. I've tried all kinds of white noise, no noise, leaving my top tucked into her cot, leaving her to try and self settle but I don't believe in leaving her to cry desperately for me and surely she is too young for sleep training? She is weaned and breastfed. She always naps if taken out in pram and rarely have I got her down in her cot for nap.
I've considered hiring a sleep professional but they are so so expensive. I get nervous about going to bed because I know the battle I'll have. My husband is fab but works a mixture of days and night shifts so he needs to sleep when working as it can be dangerous for him to do his job sleep deprived.
Am I just doing something wrong? People say she'll grow out of it and it will end but will really or will I have a teenager sleeping in her Moses next to my bed!!