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Are you opposed to sleep training? It sounds like she isn't able to fall asleep on her own yet. If you're not ok with sleep training, then I would definitely consider co-sleeping! If she falls asleep right away after you pick her up, then maybe you'll all get more rest if you sleep in the same bed.

As for the cause, other than not being able to fall asleep on her own, I think her bedtime of 7-7:15 is appropriate....But if she's not tired enough, then you can try pushing it a bit later and see what happens?
How are naps- does she sleep on her own for naps?

I think that one thing you may want to try is feeding her in a well-lit, non-nursery room (so that you don't feed to sleep) and then pop her in the crib and see what happens. You might find that since she hasn't woken up, she may not cry for as long and might wind down and be able to fall asleep on her own. As it stands now she is falling asleep in the most blissful way possible, and then waking up when she lands in the cold crib without a boob in her mouth - maybe that's why she is getting so hysterical. If you are dealing with 10-15min of crying anyway, maybe try it that way one night & see what happens? We've never been able to bedshare and had gotten into the habit of feeding to sleep and the many night wakings that entailed. At 6 months we let him CIO extinction - on the longest night it took no more than 20 min. Good luck !!!

This is very similar to what we had going on before we sleep trained. I would nurse DS to sleep, put him down, and then 30-40 minutes later he'd be up again screaming. Because I was putting him down asleep he couldn't fall asleep on his own and had no clue what to do when he woke up after one sleep cycle. We very minorly switched the bedtime routine - I would nurse him almost to sleep, then put him in his sleep sack after (effectively waking him up), then sing his bedtime song as a sleep cue, hand him the lovey and put him in the crib. With this routine plus three nights of by-the-book Ferber, he has been falling asleep on his own every night since (we started at 4mo and now he's 9mo). Once we did that he was also able to fall asleep own for naps (staying asleep for a legit long nap is another story) - seriously life-changing!

@ScarletBegonia: yep I agree.

The conditions that she falls asleep under should be the same as when she wakes up--otherwise it can be extremely disorienting. If you give her motrin before bed, then you can know that teething isn't keeping her up. I would for sure sleep train, but that's me! The good news is that it seems her major problem is going to sleep at the beginning of the night--I personally think that's the easiest part to sleep train for because they're most tired and it's not the MOTN for you, so you have more willpower.