Can't break boob to sleep

[Froggles1]

Hi everyone!
Just wondering if anyone has any tips for reducing night feedings 😩
Baby is 8.5 months - weaning onto solids has been slow but getting better now baby is crawling.
I’ve been trying to get in a routine with naps (esp nap 1 of 2) where I feed baby downstairs then put her in cot awake. I cant bear leaving her cry but thought this might help her settle in the nights.
Last week, I managed to shh/pat to sleep for naps usually taking between 10-15 mins but she was falling asleep. This week though she is crying loads as soon as I put her in so I have reverted to feeding to sleep then attempting to transfer which sometimes works. I feel that sleep training information can be so overwhelming but I oscillator between wanting to help her "settle" independently to just doing the easiest / instinctive option.

I dont really know what I’m asking. 🙈I guess I thought she would get more used to it after a week but now I feel I am confusing her 😩any tips/advice/empathy welcome 🤣

How many times is she up at night and is this a new thing, is she teething?
I would separate naps and nights and just work on the nights, they are governed by a different part of the brain I've heard.
What happens if you don't feed at first wake up for example? Or don't enter the room?

Hi @chillichutneysarnie thanks for replying!

She goes to bed around 7-7:30 and wakes around the same time in the morning but between this time she wakes between 4-6 times😩
Her dad will go in if it's before 10pm ish and usually can pat her back to sleep. Every other wake I just feed her as it's so quick she's asleep again in under 5 mins. So I don't think it's hunger she definitely wants the comfort. It's been a bit more frequent lately (we went away a month ago & weirdly she slept better there waking between 1-3 times.
She won't take a dummy but she will start the night in her cot but I end up bringing her in around 11pm as I'm so tired. I have tried just seeing if she can settle herself but I can't stand leaving her cry too long and unfortunately it's not just a grizzled she gets worked up 😩plus I have a 5 yr old so don't want to disturb him too much.
I think I will focus on the night; I thought the naps would be easier but actually I think you're right that the drive to sleep would make it easier at night. I just know that I won't be strong enough to follow it through during the early hours as I'm so tired 😩then I feel bad for confusing her. Just to add - no teeth yet but seems to teeth constantly and is doing lots developmentally atm too

Every baby/mama different but my DS was similar in terms of having lots of trouble dropping off without boob or being held/bounced, and we eventually tried moving his cot out of his room and putting him to sleep on the mattress on the floor so I could lie next to him, this got him started with falling asleep ‘by himself’ but without boob and then we shifted him back into the cot later on. It wasn’t a straight line but he definitely got better and better at falling asleep alone from around 8/9 months on. But the floor bed period did see me ending up sleeping there for half the night when I settled him at 3am then couldn’t face moving in case it woke him up. So horses for courses 🤷‍♀️