My daughter is 6 months old and is a terrible sleeper. I am not used to this because I have a 3-year-old son who was an amazing sleeper - slept through the night for the first time at 3 months, and was sleeping 10-12 hours consecutively by 5 months with only an occasional wake up. Needless to say I am losing my mind this time around and have no idea what to do.

Starting around 3 months she went from like 2 wakeups a night to waking up every hour or two, which I thought was an early 4 month sleep regression. I did everything to get her into a good groove, but it has not improved at all since then, and in the last week or two it has gotten especially bad.

I try to put her to bed more or less at the same time although with an older child to look after it is slightly less consistent than I would like, but she is generally down sometime between 6:30-7:30. We do bath, book, dim lights, sleep sack, and nurse. Sometimes she falls asleep nursing, but often she doesn't and is able to self soothe to sleep within a few minutes - no problem there. She has a lovey she sleeps with.

She used to be able to sleep from 7-1 but the last week or so she has consistently been waking up at 9-10, and then again 1-2, then again 4-5, then up at 6:30. This is clearly some habitual waking or her moving through a sleep cycle and not able to fall back asleep.

When she cries, I usually give her a couple minutes, and then go to her. I try other things first - giving a pacifier, shushing her, patting her - this just makes her madder and makes her cry much harder. I HAVE to nurse her to get her back to sleep. Which means it's all on me and my husband cannot do anything in the middle of the night. He's tried and she just gets more riled up.

The other complicating factor is we only have a two bedroom home so she is still in the room with me. She seems to be a light sleeper and I think having me right there/hearing me/smelling me is also what is making her wake up. The only alternative is to put her in the crib in my son's room (which was the original idea, that they would share a room) but since she wakes up so frequently I rather she just wake me up and not wake up my toddler, too.

This further complicates the idea of sleep training her or doing "cry it out" because we have a small house and I can't really let her cry for 20-30 minutes without waking up everyone. Also, my husband is not on board with it and gets mad if I don't get her after a couple minutes. I would prefer not do CIO, but at this point I am willing to do anything.

I don't know if she is really hungry at night but she is a very petite baby so I feel like I should be feeding her...but doubt she really needs to be eating as often as a newborn does at this age.

I just don't know what to do anymore and feel like my options are even more limited because of our sleeping arrangements. Her naps are pretty good, she is in daycare so I don't have much control over the schedule, but they put them down for two naps a day and she sleeps at least an hour or two for one of the naps, the other is usually hit or miss...like 20-30 minutes. When she first started she didn't nap for the first month but now does better.

So, my question is HOW can I get her back to doing a long stretch, at least at the beginning of the night? I would be ok with like... 1, maybe 2 night wakes but these 4+ night wakes are making me a crazy person.

Sorry this post was all over the place but anyone have advice for sleep training with a small place where sound carries everywhere, a toddler, and room sharing?