Night wakings

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My little girl is waking every 1-2 hours at night and it's exhausting. She's a week short of 9 months and is crawling, pulling self up, cruising just not walking yet. She fights 2 day time naps of 45 mins every day.

We bed share as we get the most sleep that way and it works. She's EBF so when she wakes up in the night for 2 feeds it was easy to roll over, feed and we both go back to sleep but recently she goes to bed at 7pm and wakes up 10pm, 12am/1am, 3am, 4am, 5am and wakes fully 6.20am. To get her back to sleep I BF sometimes she stays latched for ages and sometimes 2 mins. She's just got her 2 front teeth and have a feeling there's more to come. She's been off her food as well which is really frustrating.

I will try put her in a cot eventually but reluctant right now.

Any advice would be appreciated? So tired and low right now.

My DD was very similar - short day time naps and waking up to 10 times a night. You may not be up for this but we sleep trained at 10 months. She was sleeping through within three nights. She was in her own room though, I'm not sure how you'd sleep train when you're co-sleeping.

Also, the sleeping through lasted until she had her MMR and that disrupted her so much that we've basically co-slept ever since 😭

Honestly the best thing we ever did was getting our girl to self soothe in her own room. We’ve got friends that are co sleeping at 3 and they’re knackered. It really is draining.

@BirdIsland @Doglady1764 I'm not a big fan of letting her cry to sleep which is why I've avoided sleep training. How did you get to self soothe?

I didn't do any sleep training I found sleep almost worst from about 9 -12 months, then on and off bad till about 20 months and then just got better and better. I think at 9 months they are learning so much, development stuff, getting teeth, often pick up illnesses etc, abd then might start nursery. An option is you just ride it out, go to bed early, nap when you can, get your partner involved if that's possible. It's hard going at times, but mine did just get better in time.