Over the past two months 10 month old DD's sleep has gone from "okay" to crap. She's waking 4/5 times a night (previously it might be anywhere from 1-3). She rarely naps for longer than 40 minutes (sometimes she will, but rarely unless she's on me - which isn't practical. We never had a great nap routine, but she was much more likely to do at least one long nap of about 2 hours). I'm also feeding her to sleep every time - naps, bedtime, every wake-up. I had got to the stage of being able to rock her to sleep for most naps and bedtime, and was working on putting her into cot drowsy but awake so she fell asleep there - but teething then a cold then more teething broke my resolve and we've lapsed.
She's an ACTIVE baby. When she wakes at night she's up and trying to crawl about before her eyes are even open. She also gets angry quickly. Attempting to rock her now just results in her jiving around shouting, until I nearly drop her - it's not restful. I don't know where to start - I can't cope with the frequency of the night wakings, I need to start getting her to settle without a feed as she's a few months away from nursery, and I feel like the nights won't get better till she can re-settle on her own. But if she's overtired that won't help (which I think she must be on 2 x 30 minutes - although she's such a little tornado it doesn't really show. I think she just rampages through it!)
I live in a terraced house so I can't have her screaming in the middle of the night. So where do I begin?!? 😭