tried everything and nothing is working

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Ok a brief history, dd is 7.5 months old and has mostly been fed to sleep until about 5/6 months where she was waking so much during the night we tried to try something new to help her to sleep. We started rocking her to sleep which would sometimes take anything up to 2 /3 hours but did start to work, til she wised up and then got progressively worse. So after 3 weeks of this not getting better we tried just cuddling her to sleep, this worked well for about 5 days then she wised up to it, and started to scream as soon as it looked like she might be going to sleep and would carry on, wouldn't be fed to sleep either.
Then we tried leaving in her cot and trying to settle her down in there, the first time she cried for an hour, then 25 mins, then not at all but now it seems to be getting worse again and I dont think i can cope with weeks of her screaming whenever she comes to go to sleep. We wouldnt ever leave her ut try and sush and rub her her back.
If it wasnt for the fact that she is exhausted constantly and has got bags like suitcases under her eyes and hasn'T had longer than an hour of unbroken sleep in months I would just carry on feeding her back to sleep but its not doing anyone in the family any good, me or her.
Has anyone got any advice? Im desperate.
We generally co sleep by the way

can anyone please help, i feel like im starting to hate being a parent when so much of it is a struggle.

can anyone help? I think half the problem is she never goes into a deep sleep, she always wakes up 45 mins after she goes down and then just carries on like that all night.

My baby's a bit too young for me to speak from experience, but have you tried ringing Cry-sis to ask for advice? There's also some good tips on Andrea Grace's website (some sort of sleep consultant)

For what it's worth, we've been trying to get our baby to settle himself more independently. We put him in the cot when he is calm, and if he starts crying we put a hand on his chest and one lower down (across knees, groin, wherever) and really gently move our hands as if we are rocking him from side to side. It doesn't actually move him, it's just the pressure shifts a bit, which he seems to find soothing. Worth a try as an alternative to patting?