Newbie at EASY, 6 months old and wakes up for several times

[Lilli]

Hello!

I have a 6 month old daughter and she has started waking at nights for about two months ago (Before that, she slept between 21 and 06 and woke up 1-2 times to eat). Since she started to wake up, I started reading about sleep and introduced EASY a few weeks ago. Now we are doing well daytime but our nights are still a pain. Is there anything in our daily routine that makes her wake at night? Here is our EASY schedule. Times may vary depending on the naps.

06:00 Wakes up, some activity
E: 07:00 BF
A:Activity
08:00 Solid
Activity
S: 09:00 Nap (45 or 90 min)

10:30 Wakes up, some activity
E: 11:00 BF
A: Activity
11:45 Solid
Activity
S: 12:30 Nap (45 or 90 min, depends on the first nap)

14:00 Wakes up, some activity
E: 15:00 BF
A: Activity
S: 16:30 Catnap (30 min, depends on the earlier naps)

17:00 Wakes up, some activity
17:45 Solid
18:00 Bedtime routine
18:45 BF
19:00 In bed

Total daytime sleep: 3 hr
Total nighttime sleep: 11 hr with wakings

She usually wakes up 23:00 and wants to breast feed. After that she wakes up, for example, 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, or so she wakes up 23:45, 02:00, 04:00, and to breast feed her is the only way to make her sleep again. She doesn’t eat long, just for a few minutes, but she is doing that way even daytime mostly because she is easily distracted. Sometimes she wakes up at 5 in the morning and doesn’t want to sleep any more. She sleeps in a sidebed. Daytime, it’s ok if someone else put her to bed, in the evening I have to lie in the bed next to her so she can fall asleep. We have tried not to go into the room after she falls asleep to see if we wake her, but she wakes up anyway. Usually she takes the dummy when she will sleep but she doesn’t want it at night until she has eaten. I have extended her first A (to three hours) to make her sleep longer in the morning (and not wake up 05, but she still does it sometimes). I have also tried with DF before she wakes the first time, but she continues to wake up every two hours after that anyway. Sometimes she lets gases when she wakes up but I do not know if it wakes her up. I do not know in detail what happens when she wakes up every single time because I'm so tired and just want to go back to sleep (I know I've tried to give her dummy and not take her up). I have not slept more than three hours at a time for several weeks. Do you have any idea what to try next? (Sorry for my English

[Lilli]

Thank you for replaying to me!
Well, when she wakes up, she usually grumbles a bit and then she starts to cry. I tried not to pick her up until she begins to cry, but she doesn’t fell asleep by herself anyway.
As long as she wakes up so early in the morning I can’t extend her A time and drop the CN, the day is still too long for her. She becomes very tired while the second A, I don’t think I can extend it yet.
When she first started to wake up at nights, I also suspected teething, but that was almost three months ago, and still there is no tooth! (I gave up the thought about the spot in her mouth that was visible only for me, it was kind of like The Emperor's New Clothes)
I am afraid too that I’ve become a prop, but I don’t know how to get rid of that. I don’t let her fall asleep while breastfeeding in the evening (but I do at night)...
I even concerned quitting the dummy (after I read a thread here, where it helped) but I don’t know if I am ready for that yet. She had always had a need for suckle and as you say, it’s so many things happening around her at this age... I don’t have enough strength for that too... In that case, her daily naps will be disturbed, and for now, it’s something (if anything) that works fine.
This week I am on the milk free diet, just want to eliminate stomach disease.  But soon I will run off of ideas!