9 month old won’t sleep

My daughter hasn’t slept through the night since she was 3 months old, she really struggles with cot naps and either has 30 minutes max or will wake up immediately and cry so I have to contact nap.

She wakes multiple times a night and recently I’ve been struggling to get her back to sleep and it can take up to 2 hours and sometimes we have to co-sleep to get up through if it’s after 4am (please no judgement, we do this as safely as possible and it’s not something I ever wanted to do)

I go back to work in a few weeks and I’m so worried that I’m going to be even more exhausted and I just don’t know what to do!
Any advice is welcome, I will do anything (except cry it out) for a good nights sleep!

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Ahhh I could have wrote this other than the fact that my little boy has literally slept through the night twice in his whole life. He co sleeps with me full time because it’s the only way to get any sleep but even then it’s 90 minute stretches max. I have no idea what to do at this point, I’m just trying to accept that it won’t be this way forever because otherwise I start to spiral about it. Dreading going back to work in January because I’m permanently exhausted as it is and working full time on top of that feels impossible at the moment. Nothing helpful but right there with you and sending all my positive sleep thoughts 🤍

Thank you for the support ladies, sometimes it’s nice to just know you’re not alone, although I wish we were all getting some good sleep😂 I am thinking of putting a floor bed in our spare room and cosleeping on bad nights but not sure how this is going to work when I have to get up for work, I just hope we can do something soon to help x

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