8 month old - awful sleep

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Losing will to live with baby’s sleep.

She’s not doing more than an hour or two at a time, sometimes I’m resettling her 8 plus times a night.

The slightest movement wakes her, if she rolls in bed and reaches a cot side that wakes her. She’s up feeding so much at night I have to change her nappy. Sometimes twice. Can be wet or dirty nappies too. And from 3am onwards she only wants to sleep in my arms.

We’re doing some work done on our upstairs rooms so she’s in a travel cot, in our room still so the sleep set up is not ideal. We will be moving her to her own room soon (this week) but I feel like the stretches should be a bit better at the start of the night?

Feeling really despondent as we are on our third settle of the night already. And last night she awake between 1am and 4am and then only did 45min stretches after that until 630 when we had to start our day. I’ve also got a really active 4 year old and I’m just starting to feel a bit broken by the tiredness.

Any ideas or experiences?

Some kids are just crap sleepers. Dd1 slept through at 18 months. Dd2 was more like 3 and a half. In my experience they don’t sleep better at night until they can stay awake in the day and get nursery bugs etc out of the way. I think with dd2 I used one of those breathable cot wraps to make it a bit softer when she rolled to the sides. Helped a bit

What are her feeds like during the day? Does she take a soother? My little lads night time sleep did not improve until I refused to give in to the multiple night feeds.

What’s her usual wake / naps / bedtime? Sounds like she isn’t tired enough for the night. I’d be having a consistent morning wake, cutting day sleep, and consider later bedtime. We’ve always coslept in the early hours; might be worth just giving in to that.