8 month old sleeping/not sleeping...sigh

Clodagh is NOT sleeping. She is RUBBISH at sleeping.  

We are attachment parenting her and happy generally with how things are going...we did have her in a routine for about a month lol but then she popped her first tooth and that was all over rover.  She's never been great at settling, even my experienced with 3 children Mother says he is a tricky baby, but she seems to be getting worse as she gets older.

Lately, she won't go near her cot. It's the same cot she's always had, no differences at all with bedding etc. She just wants to sleep with me (which I have no problem with except I don't sleep as well). She will go to sleep in the buggy too with not too many problems.

I guess I just want to know how many other bubs about this age are not great at settling? She still feeds at least once per night and normally 2-3 times, esp if we are co-sleeping.

Sigh.

Thanks for your replies so far.

We've left her to CIO (against my better judgement) but this baby has a mind of her own adn can literally scream for hours. And I mean SCREAM not grizzle or cry

Last night after I fed her and DF took her for a walk in the buggy (cos she wasn't going to go down in her cot), she fell asleep in her buggy for about 20 minutes but then woke up. I spent over 2 hours- not joking- putting her in her cot and just sittng next to it, shushing, reading to her quietly etc. She spent the first hour and a half (not exagerating) crawling around the cot looking for an escape route. Intermitent crying adn getting worked up I didn't pick her up unless she was hysterical, which was about twice I think. She finally tired herself out and lay there grizzling that I wouldn't pick her up FINALLY she fell asleep....for about 40 minutes! We left her to cry and she kept banging the cot and falling asleep but waking up again after 5 minutes...finally at midnight we picked her up and brought her back to bed where I fed her..and fed her again at 2am then again at 4am

I'm utterly stumped. During the day she is a lovely, gregarious beautiful child who goes to anyone and is generally very very happy, albeit already very independant. Why does she suddenly hate her cot? She's never been great at settling but in a VERY short space of time she's gone from being hard to settle to being impossible to settle as sometimes she's a night mare in our own bed!

It's made me totally wnt to put off TTC another one tbh (let alone the logistics of actually physically TTC with a baby in the bed lol).

HELP  

HippyMama- we were doing exactly what you mentioned and it was *kinda* working...but she was such a sensitive wee blossom (she said through gritted teeth) that DF and I could barely breathe loudly and definately not cough or anything before she'd wake up. She slept in our room right up in some kind of arrangement (bassinette/cot/sidecot/co-sleep) till she was 6 months old and then we moved her cos she really was waking up sooo easily. then we did a No Cry Sleep Solution routine thing which worked for a month and hen those $&*^% teeth came through and um yeah....

I think the other thing I'm gonna try is feeding her more during the day (solids and BF) and giiving only water at night as I'm convinced some of this constant waking up is for comfort not actually hunger (she's a real chubba bubba so no worries about the lack of weight gain!). She definately does NOT need BF every 2 hours at this stage. My Mama intuition tells me that at least lol.

Acety- we are not going well still

As I sit here and wirte this, Clodgah has been screaming in her cot for half an hour. I've been in to try and settle her but she's not having a bar of it. She's actually worse than ever before! Not only is she trying to drop one of her 2 day sleeps, she appears to be trying to drop sleep altogether during the day and the ONLY way she'll seleep now is in the buggy! I"ve had just about enough of her. she is REALLY beginning to get on my tits BIG time  She is also absolutely impossible to take off the breast now...she'll fall asleep or get very sleepy BF then when I try to remove her she screams bloody murder and wakes up fully and then totally utterly refuses to go down at all. I"m at my wits end. She is over one now and surely should be able to have at least one day sleep without this performance???? I'm not missing her tired signals, she's just having massive paddies cos she doesn't want to go to bed. NOw I am leaving her to CIO and I feel like utter sh*t cos I really think its a bad way to parent her. But what else can I do????? Suggestions most welcome!