My DD has generally been fairly allergic to sleep since she was born - would only sleep on me, frequent night waking, fed to sleep and short day naps. She's ebf.
When she was 7 months I'd had enough of cosleeping as we were waking each other up and I got her to sleep in the cot by sheer determination, I would comfort and rock her and then put her back in. She eventually started to settle more easily, waking only once or twice, first wake at 1am, sometimes as late as 3am. She also took to solids really well (blw) so fed less at night - down to 1.
Then hit the 8-10 month sleep regression and got poorly and wouldn't settle at all, so I took her back into bed. But now she is 10 months and still ill and it's all gone completely pear shaped. She will sleep in the cot but only til about 10pm and then screams until she has a full feed. After that will only settle if she cosleeps, but then she
still wakes frequently and we are both having v poor quality sleep all night. She wants feeding more often, back to 6-7 times a night. I tried feeding more in the day but instead of feeding less at night she has started eating less solids.
I don't know what to do. She's too heavy to rock for long so I don't know how to break the cycle of feeding on every wake or cosleeping. She is also resisting being rocked much more now she's older. She also can't be that hungry at 10, if she went to bed at 7, can she?
Please, any advice I'm so sleep deprived I can't do this much longer!