DD sleep seems to be getting steadily worse as she gets older. As a newborn up until around 12 weeks she was going to bed at around 10 with me and would wake up twice to feed then go straight back to sleep. We would get up at 8. All very fine, I was happy with this and felt lucky.
From about 12 weeks she started waking more frequently, sometimes up to 6 times a night. At one point at around 16 weeks she appeared to be on a 24/7 2hr feeding schedule. However, she would, at least, go straight back to sleep after feeding.
Recently though, she has started waking to feed but then not going back to sleep. She will lie next to me singing, playing with her feet, kicking me and whinging. I tend to sleepily try latching her on and she'll sometimes feed but sometimes not. She will also be settled whilst latched on but then wakeful again once unlatched.
She currently goes to bed in her cot at about 8:30 and will wake up once or twice in the first 2 hours for a feed. Then I take her into bed with me at around 11 and she'll sleep until around 1am, feed and back to sleep. But from 4am, she is very unsettled, will wake and play, feed, sing etc every hour. I'm firmly staying in bed with her until 8am because I don't want to get into the habit of getting up with her at stupid O'clock but neither of us are getting much rest as I am either constantly feeding her whilst dozing or being kicked in the ribs/sung loudly too.
Does anyone have any advice as I'm starting to dread going to bed and I'm exhausted. My friend's with babies a similar age are all starting to have better nights, but mine seem to be getting worse every day.
She is demand-EBF, I haven't started weaning although she is having the odd vegetable piece/apple to suck on at our meal times. She sleeps in her cot during the day. Thank you for any advice