Night wakes gone mad

My 7 month old is on wake 6 already tonight (9pm bedtime its currently 2am) l. She used to do 5-6 hour stretches,sometimes longer. 4 months she started stared doing less, and since 6 months, it's gone absolutely mad. She feeds most wakes for ease, but she doesn't need it or even necessarily initiates it, I can get her back down without, just takes a bit longer. I coulr manage with the next to me, just about, as I wasn't getting in and out of bed to put her down, but shes standing now so needed a proper cot, so now every 1-2 hours I'm getting out of bed, feedimg/rocking her, putting her down (not always first time) , getting back into bed, not being able to fall asleep straight away unlike before, then doing it all again and hour later. I'm absolutely exhausted and dealing with my 7 momth old and my 2m5 year old all day without help or nursery, so I get no breaks at all. I don't know how to help to situation as I can't change anything about day sleep schedules as I am absolutely dictated by these children as we live in a flat sp the baby regulary gets woken up by the toddler and then I'm unable to settle her back to sleep, or in unable to get her to sleep at the perfect point as I'm just too busy or my toddler is making noise or having a big emotion. I would happily cosleep (it's what I did first time round with my hourly waker) but we have no space for a bed to cosleep on. I need to figure out the route cause really. I don't even know why I'm writing this out, maybe advice, maybe just moral supprt, who knows 😂

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Activities for wake windows.

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My 3 year old son and I were out in our own garden today playing football and we could hear the neighbour girl playing in her garden. My son asked me "why is the girl making that noise?" And kept saying "mummy what is that noise?" (I don't know the proper terms but I guess it's like stimming noises maybe?)

I didn't really know what to say, I just explained the girl is happy and playing in her garden like we are. He accepted that and moved on, but is that the right thing to do? Should I have explained more/differently?

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0.2 tog sleeping bag and nappy in 28 degrees Celsius

He's 18 months old.

I've everything I can to cool the room down but it's been 35 degrees outside today and the heat hasn't let up for weeks. I ran the AC in his room for 6 hours today (removed before bed as I don't think it's ideal to run in his room overnight - it's really noisy and dries the air out) and managed to get it down to 24 degrees. Also kept all electronics off, blackout blinds and curtains closed, and even tried the tin foil on the outside of the window trick, the whole nine. Obviously, as the building is so hot, the temperature in his room shot up in the hours since I removed the AC, although I kept the door and window shut.

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How many people actually cosleep all night?

I know it isn’t officially recommended but I’m just curious how many actually do end up doing it! And what ages do/did you cosleep with your babies?

How does your baby go to sleep at night?

Comment if other. My boy used to go down all by himself, I thought we were blessed, but we seem to have gone backwards and now it’s taking an hour to get him to sleep through cuddles 🥲