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Sleep advice...please help!

Hi, my baby is 8.5 months old. She sleeps well for the first half of the night from 7pm-10pm roughly, will wake for a feed around this time (she's breastfed), and will then only sleep for an hour or so at a time. I tend to feed her when she wakes, as that usually sends her back to sleep relatively quickly. Then she's up from 3am and just won't settle. I'm trying to get her to settle in her own cot, which is still in my room at the moment, and ideally don't want to feed everytime she wakes. I've been reading up on different sleep training techniques, one I've been trying is 'pick me up, put me down' where I pick her up and just rock her, gently shush, then put her in her cot. If she cries, repeat until she stays asleep 😴 I've been doing that for an hour + and it's just not working 😩 I've now got her on the boob again, but if I put her in her cot, she'll just wake again! I have tried co-sleeping, but I do want to get out of this as she's so wriggley, I'm terrified she'll just fall out of bed. I need to get her to sleep for longer, especially as I have a 6 year old that I need to get up and ready for school, and soon I'll be going back to work, not sure how I'll function on 4 hours of broken sleep and be able to do my job!? Any advice, tips welcome! Thanks 😊

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My boy is exactly the same sorry just commenting for solidarity! I have a 2 year old! I did sleep training with him in his own room at 9 months but, I can’t do the same this time as I don’t have a spare room for him to do it!

I feel your pain and I’m in the same boat. Here for the suggestions.

I feel you. I have split nights and frequent wakes and it’s destroying me. Even if I feed it doesn’t guarantee a sleep and we have 2-2.5 hour wide awake windows at random parts of the night.

I feel your pain and was on the same boat. Found that my LO was just waking and looking for breast for comfort in the second half of the night. We used the same sleep method as you. The first two nights were hell, resettling him almost every 10 -20 minutes. Night three, it gradually became easier. By night 5, we had made serious progress. Initially starting with hourly wakes to 4-7 hour stretches. I would recommend that you preserve. I also believe that you need to be mentally prepared for up to a week of misery, but believe me, it is worth it. X

@Seline the last bit of your comment was everything I need to hear rn! My LO is 8.5 months and we’ve coslept since birth. He’s still up every hour of the night to comfort (breast) feed. I’m going to start with day naps in his room for 2 weeks and then try him in his own cot at night afterwards. Do you have any more tips? X

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