Sleep rant (help needed!)

My lo (just one) used to wake up once a night for milk (bf) and I was ok with that. For the last four weeks, her sleep at night has been awful , with multiple wakes. We try to feed her milk and then cuddle back to sleep, we often give her Calpol too. When she used to wake, I’d BF her back to sleep but I’ve reduced BF to almost zero feeds most nights (I’m currently on my period and I think that’s finished it off). When I try to sooth her (rocking, singing) she tries to fling herself out of my arms / pushes off me (sometimes I feel like she hates me it’s so forceful). It would be helpful to hear if anyone else’s baby hates being settled in any fashion. She’s always had big fomo. She settles better for my OH but I expect a lot of BF babies are similar. She’s had her first tooth recently, which was a whole new level of sadness for her but that seems to have thankfully passed. She’s been diagnosed with a cow, egg and soy allergy for the last 6 months ( I’m dairy free ). Husband and I have been to months of couples CBT, I was previously diagnosed with PND. She hates being settled in her cot, she hates being rocked to sleep. She needs more sleep, I want to help her sleep and we need more sleep. I’ll take all and any suggestions. Any sleep consultant recommendations would be great (though I’d much rather us help her without paid external help). Thank you for reading my rant

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Mine also hates being touched when she's tired and sad, she'll push my arm away with such force even if I just pat her. Weirdly the only thing she calms for is the sound of the hairdryer which is probably not good for her hearing, but equally inconsolable screaming for hours every night isn't good for anyone's ears either. She immediately shuts her eyes and then I give it 5 mins and then the hairdryer off. Really need another strategy as I thought she'd have grown out of it by now. We are combination feeding but trying to wrap up breastfeeding. She only settles for my husband when I'm out the house. Sorry this isn't more helpful but I wanted to comment so you know you're not alone 💕

No advice but we’re exactly the same for about 4 weeks as well doesn’t help We’ve had about 3 colds and sometimes wakes up coughing but then he’s wide awake and pushes off you till he gets on the floor. It’s lasting about 2 hours a night. We’ve tried cutting naps, having longer naps, milk, everything just come to the conclusion it’s a phase, hoping he grows out of it soon. My baby monitor notifications last night picked up me going in 13 times and I’m at work today! I do find he seems to need generally less sleep than some babies! About to drop him off at nursery and hope for the best as he’s full of a cough and cold today. If it helps I’ve got a teenager that I can’t get out of bed 😂😂

Ebf mum of a baby who has always and still wakes every 1-2 hours for milk/comfort. The only way I have survived this long is cosleeping. I don’t have to move when she wakes just latch her on and she barely wakes up most of the time either. Also even with no milk lots of babies still latch for comfort

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