8 month frequent waking, separation anxiety?!

[KT13H]

After trawling through threads for months decided to take the plunge and start one of my own.
I have an 8 month old who at around 17-22 weeks was sleeping for 7/8 solid hours with no night feed. However she suddenly started waking and stirring throughout the night (pretty much every hour) and she's been doing this ever since. It seems to be getting worse and now rather than stirring she's full on crying at times. She'll stop if brought into our bed.
Nap wise, she's not great at napping for long periods of time (unless held).
I know her waking is obviously linked to separation anxiety and her inability to self soothe, so I'm looking for some advice on how to combat this. Is she too old for pick it up put down method? Is that just giving her what she wants?
Any words of wisdom would be appreciated. I feel more tired now than when she was a newborn.

I've got no advice but I'm going through the exact same thing my LO is 9 months and I'm exhausted!
He will sometimes settle ok in his own bed but after an hour or so he's screaming the house down, and he's started vomiting and choking on it he gets himself so worked up so I have to pick him up, in the last 2 weeks he's ended up in our bed but then I don't get any sleep because he still wakes up and rolls around the bed crying... I just don't know what to do anymore
I'm 30 weeks pregnant too and I'm just exhausted all the time

It's so odd how they'll be okay for certain periods of time. My LO will sleep fine from about half 7/8 until 11pm.
You must be absolutely shattered, you poor thing. Mustn't be easy to get comfortable co-sleeping either with a bump. At least I can some sleep if she's in bed with me.

@KT13H yeah my LO is the same he goes down around 7:30 after his tea and a bath and wakes after an hour sometimes he gets to about 10:30-11:00
It's him kicking me in the stomach that's the worst I'm literally up all night!
And he wakes up with the biggest smiles and I'm like the walking dead! 😂

Just stumbled across your thread, my 8 month old had gone from awful to impossible with all forms of sleeping and I hadn't really linked it to separation anxiety but that totally makes sense. She never used to be a cry-y baby but now screams at night (& day) even when held. I'm thinking the only way through will be some gentle (and no doubt awful) sleep training. Anyone tried? Can't go on with the 10+ nightly wake ups! 😵