Waking every hour - 8 month old

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I am desperate for help so before I pay a sleep consultant to tell me things I’ve undoubtedly read about I thought I’d ask here.

On a good night (super rare) she wakes up every two hours otherwise it’s every hour. Screaming awake and not settled with a gentle bum pat.

If relevant we’ve just moved her into her own room which EVERYBODY said would make a big positive difference. Everybody is clearly an idiot.

Cosleeping doesn’t make a big difference and to be honest I want her to sleep independently.

Help! I’m losing my mind.

Is she bottle fed? Dummy?

Combi fed but annoyingly feeds to sleep, has never taken a dummy despite multiple attempts

Has it always been like this or is it a recent thing?

She’s never been a great sleeper but this is new over the last couple of weeks - before that our good nights were two short take ups and easily resettled. Last night she woke up 8 times 😩

Sleep regression? In which case, it’ll soon pass.

Is she napping during the day and napping well? Poor quality naps lead to poor quality night sleep = vicious circle. In this case, fix the daytime sleep and the nighttime sleep should improve.

Does she have a long enough gap between waking from last nap and bedtime? This gap should be longer than earlier gaps between sleeps.

Is she sufficiently full before bedtime? I used to top my DD off with a small bowl of porridge before bed and she still
wolfed down a bottle too, but she slept better. Ideally
you want something high in fat (yogurt?) before bed to keep her full.

Finally, my DD doesn’t sleep well when she’s constipated. In this case I give her a pouch of puréed prunes, does the job.

After trying these if none work, then maybe approach the consultant

The above post has featured great notes which HV advised me. How long has it been since you have moved her into own cot? Is she being breastfed? We moved our 7 month DS into his own room and cot. It took a few months for him to not wake up so frequently which was similar to you every hour. Now just over 10 months he's still not the best would have 2 bottles a night, wake up for dummy but it is a big improvement. We have just stuck to him being in the cot the whole time despite difficult nights. I have tried to revert to cosleeping on really bad nights but he just got all excited and started to climb everything which was not safe. Recently DS has been waking up more frequently because of the temperature so could have been thirsty. Our friends have suggested cry it out method for settling at bedtime because it takes a while to fall asleep but I'm still hesitant about. Recently I have let him cry out a bit (up to minute or two) in the night to see if he's able to self soothe with a dummy and has couple of comforters in the cot. Since then I haven't needed to intervene as much. You can try that if haven't already and you can hear the different cries when they're just having a moan or full on blown crying. He also has a sound machine due to us living a flat and he can hear the tiniest of sounds. Sorry I can't be much help. Hope she improves I'm sure it's not fun for her either to be up so much.