8 month baby has been waking every hour every night for just over a month.
I've read everything about baby sleep and sleep training so I'm not really looking for advice about getting baby to sleep. (I don't really want to sleep train, and I don't think it would work for my baby anyway - she'd just climb out of the cot - seriously - my plan is to talk to health visitor to rule out medical reasons for bad sleep then work on daytime naps then go from there...)
What I actually need is tips for managing sleep deprivation myself! I'm getting maybe 3-4 hours a night in 30-60 minute stretches. My baby also seems to time her wake-ups just as I'm about to drift off so it literally feels like I am being tortured.
When baby wakes I feed her back to sleep or give her finger to suck or hold her hand in the cot which sometimes (rarely) works. My partner tries settling her, but even when he manages to get her back to sleep she wakes again ten minutes later demanding a feed, so it's kind of better for everyone if I just feed her.
Tried co-sleeping and that's worse as I just cannot get comfortable so end up lying awake.
I'm starting to get confused in the daytime and I get headaches and nausea as well which I think is just from lack of sleep.
Is there anything I can do to get more sleep myself? Are there tricks for falling asleep really quickly after settling baby? Or ways to making napping in the day easier? Or remedies for the headaches so I'm not popping paracetamol all the time?