Right now DD wakes 4-5 times a night (minimum) and she's almost 8 months. I know it's not unheard of, but I feel like it's pretty crazy and I haven't slept more than 4 straight hours since she was born. My patience is wearing thin and DH and I are constantly bickering about her sleep.

She slept in our bed most of the night until 6 weeks ago and while it was great in some respects, it just wasn't a good long-term solution for us. Now she's in her room all night, but as I mentioned before - so. many. wakings. The past 10 days we've been doing some light sleep training using the Sleep Sense program, and the first few nights it was pretty great - she slept 4 hour stretches all night and was putting herself back to sleep multiple times a night. However, since things were going so well, we became a little lazy and her sleep has been pretty hit or miss the past week. I feel terrible because our inconsistency is sending her major mixed signals which isn't fair to her. We obviously need to just commit to doing it right, but I'm so nervous. Mostly about feeding.

In general, she eats very often, even during the day. At night I try to only feed her every three hours (she's often up more frequently) which I feel is still a lot for a baby her age. Ideally we'd be down to one or even two per night. I'm scared that while sleep training I'll miss a hunger cue and she'll be super hungry and crying and pissed. She also relies heavily on nursing to sleep which we're also trying to work on but in the middle of the night it's hard to resist letting her pass out while eating so I can just get back to bed. Again, I just need to get over it and start putting her down awake. I'm not 100% sure what I'm asking for here, but some encouraging words for sleep training and to hear your experiences on night weaning and cutting out nursing to sleep would be great.