11 month old feeding every two hours during the night!

[rockinghorse3256]

Will try and not ramble here just have a couple of issues. DD has only ever slept through twice. Between about 4 to 7 months though she only woke once for a bf I would be happy with that. If she's not ready to sleep through yet that's fine. However it has now slowly crept back up and last night was particularly bad every two hours. She is teething so could that be the cause? I do not want to do controlled crying.
Also now this is my own fault we got into a bad routine of her staying up till 10pm. She just would not go to sleep and in the end I gave up as it actually worked out well. She didn't get up until 10am so it meant I could shower, have breakfast, clean the house etc. However I am going back to work soon and this needs to change as she won't be able to sleep in. I was given some good advice about slowly getting her to sleep 15 minutes earlier every few days. This seemed to be working, we have managed to get her bedtime to 8.45/9pm. However, it seems to have stopped working as we now can't get her to sleep any earlier. When we try it often back fires and she fights it that much she ends up going to sleep later. Also this seems to have caused some bad habits. In order to get her to sleep I have to pretend to be asleep next to her cot. She then wants to touch my face often nipping me and pulling at my ears, lips (it actually hurts) I move her hands away and she gets upset and starts sitting up.
Please has anyone got any advice besides controlled crying about any of the issues? Thanks

Months 8-10/11 were rough for us due to regression and learning so many things. After that it settled dramatically and my 14 month old wakes once in the night at the moment.

My 7 month old dd is the same bedtime wise, she will sit and play all night if we let her, I have been very against controlled crying however she has to go to bed earlier, there is nothing wrong she literally just wants to be up playing even when she's absolutely shattered she will cry, last night I decided 8 was bedtime and she would be going to bed fed and changed every night at 8pm, she screamed when I first put her down for about 5 minutes I gave her a dummy and then she went off to sleep, woke at 10 and 12 for a bottle and then slept till 7, I'm going to do bedtime at 8 again tonight and continue with it until she's used to it, I'm also starting bedtime routine of story etc so she associates it... hope you get sorted soon! X

My dd was waking to bf every two hours at that age; it was a killer. dp started getting up with her at night as dd would settle for him but if I went in she'd just cry and moan until I bf. Dp had to do this for about 3 weeks (I think I bf about 3 times in total during the night during this period as I was sure she was genuinely hungry). Is this a
option for you? This seemed to help and she began sleeping for longer stretches.

I read something by Dr Jay (I think that's the name) about night weaning which helped.

rockinghorse3256, when are her daytime naps? And how long does due usually nap for?

Thank you everyone. It sounds like this might be normal from your responses. I do bf her when she wakes as it's the easiest way to get her to go back to sleep. Plus she always has a good feed so part of me thinks she may actually be hungry.
I do need her to go to bed earlier as I will be leaving for work sometimes at 6am. I will have to just keep trying. @FATEdestiny she has two naps a day. The times depend on when she actually wakes. I try to make sure her second nap doesn't go past 4pm. Do you think I am letting her nap too late? I probably was when she wasn't waking up till 10am it meant her first nap wasn't really till 12pm.