I have the most appalling sleeper. She slept brilliantly until 4 months, gradually improved around 6 months and since 7 months has hit rock bottom. She's 8.5 months now.
Until this last month she would go from 7.30-10.30/11ish and then wake every 2 hours going back down with a very quick feed. She's now waking 30 mins after I put her down and then every 45-60 mins throughout the night. Occasionally I get 90mins.
She feeds to sleep, and wakes sometimes with a cry and sometimes just a fart wakes her up. She can't self settle and only feeds to sleep but every other wake I can sometimes easily rock her back to sleep. I fall asleep sitting up more often than not so sometimes she'll be on me for a whole hour, sometimes she goes back in her co sleeper cot.
The later in to the night/Morning we get the harder she is to put down and she sleeps in pur bed from about 5-7, but co sleeping doesn't make her sleep any better and I still have to sit up to feed her or she won't go back to sleep, and I am so tired that I feel safer putting her in her own cot.
I know I need to teach self settling but I feel she's so little and my older 2dc were not 'dealt with' until well over one and it was a very gentle process even then. I'm just finding this one so much harder to cope with and I'm sure she's worse than the other two were.
I don't think she's teething. She's very happy in the day so I suspect it's not pain. But cosleeping doesn't help so not separation anxiety either?
She naps twice - one 45 mins in car or sling and 1 90 min - usually on me. And food wise she is on 3 meals but only eats 'well' half of the time.
Help!