9 month old not sleeping

I'm struggling with sleep. My daughter used to sleep before she was 4 months old. She's off and on done okay but lately since probably 7 months she doesn't sleep more than 2 hours at a time and tonight is really rough. She's freaking out, screaming, scratching me, flailing around and won't sleep. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. She's bed shared for months now and it was helping but it's just not anymore and I'm at a loss. I can't do cry it out. My heart can't let her scream alone. She also gets so worked up I know it wouldn't work anyway. Any advice is welcome. Tia.

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Honestly the only thing that helped us was time.. lots of it x

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Could she be teething? My LO wakes a few times during the night still (it finally got better than hourly when he mastered crawling and didn't feel the need to practice in his sleep anymore) but when he wakes up crying and screaming it's usually a physical problem like teething or if he ate something giving him gas. She could be teething even if you don't see swollen gums or the tooth coming in. Could just need some calpol?

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