I usually don't post much but I really need some advice from you ladies.. My daughter is almost a year (just started walking) and for the past few weeks we have been in sleep hell. For the first two weeks night sleep consisted of wakings every two hours (she has never slept through the night and still has two night feelings but this was much worse than normal). Now the last week and a half she has been waking up in the middle of the night and refusing to go back to sleep (on top of waking up every two hours!). Usually one of its sits up with her for about an hour while she tires herself out and then she will go down again. Naps are also terrible and she basically freaks out when she is put in her crib so we have to rock her and hold her until she's in a deep sleep. We tried a week of sleep training using CIO and it didn't work. She basically got so worked up that she started shaking I'm basically at the end of my rope and we are so exhausted. I'm even considering hiring a sleep consultant although we really can't afford it right now.

So basically my question is has anyone encountered something similar at around 12 months? What did you do? Should I wait it out? Give sleep training another shot? Hire the sleep consultant out of desperation? Any advice would be very much appreciated.