Hi All,
After some advice.
Until a couple of months ago my 8 month old was a brilliant sleeper, most nights would sleep 7pm-7am.
She now wakes at least once a night, if we're lucky at around 3/4am but usually around 2am, obviously we give a bottle but she's wide awake for around 1/2 hours then back to sleep. I usually take her downstairs, she has a play... because she's so awake and won't settle & cries if I try to settle her, I do some housework if I'm wide awake while dad sleeps or sit with her if I'm tired!
She has had a solid bedtime routine since 2 months, bath/bottle & bed... we both settle her on our bed, with music (she'll fall straight to sleep with moonlight sonata 
) we then transition her to next to me but she's recently been waking as soon as we move her so we leave her on our bed (with a pillow fort & baby monitor) she will also come into bed with us also at some point during the night.
We've tried letting her self soothe in her next to me (away from bed with sides up) but she will cry until she's in bed with us.
We plan on transitioning her to own bedroom in cot this weekend, I'm dreading it!
I'm due back in work full time in 5 weeks, I sometimes have to be out the door at 7am until 5/6pm, I work in a busy nursery so it's pretty full on all day.
Does anyone have any advice on how to cope with night waking & full time work?? She sometimes doesn't go back to sleep till 6am when I need to get up & get ready! We've agreed to take turns but my other worry is I have epilepsy and tiredness is a big trigger, I've been ok except for the first few weeks!
Also any advice on moving her to cot successfully would be great!
Thank you for reading 