15m old terrible sleep

I’m at my complete wits end with my 15m old sleep. She is up for at least 2 hours in the middle of the night nearly every single night. With usually at least one other wake up aswell.

She only nap max 1.5hrs on any given day and her bedtime is 7.30 (by this point she is totally exhausted and we can’t stretch her any longer.

Does anyone have any advice at all? My partner wants to sleep train but I can’t bear the thought of letting her cry, but I am beyond exhausted and have such little patience for anything 😭 I’m also ill and have been sick quite a bit recently an I think it’s being run down due to lack of sleep 😭

Any advice at all would be appreciated

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What time does she start her day?

My son is also 15 months. We had coslept since 4 months, weaned night feeds around 10 months, but he kept waking up soooo often. I bought a crib but he hated it, also got a floor bed and he couldnt really stay there so we went back to cosleeping (no night feeds though). He was still waking up around every 2-3 hours. We have had a set night routine for months, but that didnt really make a difference. His wake up time is around 6:45am, naps from around 11:45-1:30 and then goes to bed at 7:30. Nothing seemed to be fixing the many wake ups throughout he night UNTIL, a friend of mine recommended we use a portable playpen for his sleep.
Gave it a couple days of letting him fall asleep there and after maybe a week of pushing through, he now wakes up just once!
I think the fact that the playpen is mesh is helping him because he isnt hitting himself when he rolls around in the middle of the night.
It has been, honestly, life changing for us 😅.

I was nervous of putting him in the playpen for naps too because what we would originally do was lay next to him until he would fall asleep in bed. Once we transitioned to playpen i feel like he has been able to connect his sleep cycles a lot better! He still usually doesnt nap longer than 1.5 hours, but it is waaaay better than before where he would wake up around every 25mins of his nap.
Maybe try the portable playpen. It has made a huge difference for us

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