Ds2 is almost 8mo.
We have been weaning since 5mo so he is now having 3 meals per day with puddings. Eats protein, veg, fruit and carbs. He likes his food.
He also has between 20-24oz milk per day. Including an 8oz dream feed every night at 10pm which he demolishes.
AND YET he wakes up 2-3 times every night. He is crying now (9.40pm). He will wake up and cry every night between 1-2am. At this stage we usually manage to settle him in his cot after 30-40 mins of trying with cuddles and some nights calpol/nurofen (he already has 2 teeth and I suspect more are coming).
He wakes again between 4-5.30 and at this late hour the only way we can settle is by co-sleeping.
Is this normal?? Ds1 never did this. I don't want to co sleep. In fact I CANNOT relax or get comfy in bed with him so it's most often DH who gets into the spare bed with DS2 from 4-5am onwards. Next to my husband he will happily sleep until 7am snoring his little head off, his fingers grasping a handful of DH's chest hair.
I genuinely do not think he needs milk in the night - he does not cry for milk in the morning when he wakes up. If he gets up for the day at 7am he will have his baby cereal with cows milk at 8am (perfectly content until then) and his first bottle d the day at 10am just before his nap. So if he is not demanding milk in the morning then he cannot need it at night, right??
Is it possible for a baby to just be waking at night like this for comfort/cuddles?
And if so, do I need to do something to FIX this and train him out f it?? Or will he just grow out of it in good time??
All my friends babies seem to be either STTN by now or if they're breast fed waking for 1 or two quick feeds which would be preferable to the awful waking and crying for no discernible fucking reason that we have several times per night.
Please tell me I am not alone in this??
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FF, fully weaned 7mo is a shit sleeper, waking up multiple times per night nur not for milk. Is this within the realms of normal?
BotBotticelli · 18/03/2016 21:52
Yes 
Dd2 was so bad I only had around four hours solid sleep a night st one point (9 months) was literatly clinging on to life by my finger tips.
People lie about how well their baby sleeps
The baby sleep whisper helped me to help dd sleep for longer periods but she is nearly three now and still has bad nights.
Totally normal. DD night weaned at 8mo (bf) and was eating a fair amount of solids three times a day by 9mo (blw). She first properly slept through at 16mo. She loved to wake for a quick cuddle and would also need to cosleep for the last few hours. At a year old she was waking every 2hrs. Up to that 16mo the only things that made minor improvements to her sleeping were introducing a dummy (lengthened time between waking but also introduced issue of freaking out when waking having lost it), night weaning, accepting we were going to have to cosleep and doing it when necessary, her learning how to belly sleep (she was a late roller), CC sleep training (she went off to sleep more quickly and woke once or twice less a night). The final thing that cracked it for us was taking the sides off her cot bed and giving her a duvet. Turns out she likes the space to move rather than her sleeping bag, plus likes to stick her legs out if she gets hot. Unfortunately your DS is too young for a duvet but perhaps worth considering a blanket if you use a sleeping bag or vice versa?
Ultimately you can have a guess and try a few things to hope for improvement, but there are so many variables as to why they wake with a good chance it is just because they want a cuddle and closeness. He'll get there eventually 
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