Desperate mum looking for some advice please.
My baby girl is 9 months and sleep is getting worse and worse by the day. She used to be a great sleeper and then the 4 month regression hit and it’s spiraled out of control. She used to sleep in her next to me crib beautifully, now she’s grown out of that we’ve tried moving her into her own cot, in her own room which didn’t work so we’ve moved the cot into our room as we have the space to. She is waking up loads overnight and will only sleep if cosleeping (this started at 8 months!!). She will only ever breastfeed or be cuddled to sleep and I’m at breaking point so I have just accepted that maybe leaving her to cry it out is the only way however when trying to do this she repeatedly hits her head so hard on the side of the cot that I can hear it from downstairs so obviously go up and get her out as I don’t want her to hurt herself. I’m going back to work soon and I can’t go on like this as I’m getting no sleep and I work night shifts so really want to be able to go to work knowing her dad can put her down to sleep awake and she will sleep well. I don’t expect her to sleep through as I know it can be biologically normal to wake throughout the night for feeds under the age of 1 but I don’t want to be having to BF/cuddle to sleep and then do the dreaded transfer into the cot, for her to wake some 30 mins later. I’m also desperate to stop BF now as I feel really suffocated by the constant scratching/pinching/yanking of my collar bone etc but she refuses to drink formula.
Has anyone got any advice please??? Thank you 😩