Desperate for sleep help

[OverTheRainbow88]

So my 6 month old DS has never been a great sleeper! Initially I guess it was pretty normal, he got a terrible case of chickenpox at 12 weeks and since then his sleep has been a disaster!
He’s in his own room, in a sleep grow, black out curtains, with the Ewan the Sheep. I start bedtime about 6.30, he has a bottle of 7oz breast milk then I put him awake into his cot, I lie on the side in his floor and rub his back, this can take an hour. I wouldn’t mind it taking so long if I knew he would the sleep for a while! So last night he slept til 10pm where he woke up and was wide away til 1am and then slept on my bed until 5.30 when he woke up for the day... he’s been grumpy all day!!!!! Other nights he wakes up about 8 time’s and I have to go in and resettle. So he either wakes loads and quick ones or once for hours and hours! I tried 3 days of the Ferber... half hearted really only let the crying get up to 4 min; but I didn’t like doing that. I’m not sure how much longer I can function on so little sleep! I would happily co sleep but it doesn’t seem to work anymore, he’s waking and kicking about, rolling into me; pulling my hair!! He naps in his cot in the day time, for about 1.5 hours!

[WhatASadLittleLifeJane]

Can you co-sleep?

[babysnowman]

The Baby Sleep Method by Lucy Wolfe is good. We had success with it until DD picked up a string of bugs at nursery, by the time she got over them and we tried to go back to it she was standing in her cot so it didn't work as well.

[babysnowman]

Sorry, it's called The Baby Sleep Solution

[OverTheRainbow88]

Thank you will look into that book
Cosleeping doesn’t work for us, he just kicks about, yanks my hair, scratches me and giggles, pulls at my pillow!

[FATEdestiny]

Could the cot be in your room?

You can take one side off most cots to make a sidecar cot. Baby then gets own space, you get to lie on your own bed to do the settling.

Then once he's sleeping better, you put the 4th side back on the cot and move it away from your bed.

[OverTheRainbow88]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. In my shear state of exhaustion I’ve just realised I missed out the 1!! He’s 16 months old!