PLEASE HELP!! 6 month old no sleep

[Connie1988]

Hi everyone I am new to this have never wrote a thread In my life so please be nice

So my son is 6 months and 2 weeks old. He hasn't been a great sleeper from the start but has always been manageable until he hit the "4 month regression" me and my wife dealt with and got through the other side of waking every 30 mins for 6 weeks. He then went on to sleep ok for 2 weeks waking at about 5 am for dummy fidgeting in bed until we eventually got him out of bed at 7 but now it's worse than ever

I want to add at this point that my son is BRILLIANT at being put to bed. We have a great routine of bath bottle and bed for 7 and he always goes down first time. But as soon as 11pm hits he wakes every our until he eventually settles at about 4 am til 6.30 ish although that seems to be getting earlier too.

We started weaning around 2 weeks ago and are following bay led weaning so he doesn't seem to be eating much at the moment but is still have no 4x 8 oz. bottles during the day.

My son doesn't get fed at night as he doesn't want any we have tried this and he takes an ounce goes back to sleep and wakes the next hour. When he does wake we wait 5 mins or so to see if he will settle him self if not we go in give him dummy stroke his head until he settles we never lift him out of bed and he does settle within a few minutes he isn't even fully awake his eyes are closed as he cries

I guess I am looking for some guidance on where we are going wrong or some reassurance that one day this will all end and he will sleep better than this as me and my wife are so tired it's killing us it's even affecting the way we are with each other

Please any advice or comments would be appreciated I will try anything at this point

My DS is 9 months and has been a terrible sleeper since he got sick at about 10 weeks old, he’s good at going to sleep too but doesn’t stay there long. Once he wakes the first time usually after a few hours he’s then up every 40 minutes. I am no expert, but I have read that babies have a 45 minute sleep cycle and it’s very hard for them to start it over again once it comes to an end. Some just do it, some don’t.
You’re not doing anything wrong! He’s still so little, I am sure it will pass and one day he will just sleep through. I am going back to work in Feb so me and DH decided to get in a sleep consultant. I never thought I would do that to be honest but we are both so tired we can’t see the woods for the trees and just try to get as much sleep as possible without actually changing anything. We have other DC too so it’s very difficult at bedtime when baby is crying and waking everyone else up.
I did a lot of research for our consultant and she doesn’t use a cry it out method just gives you a routine to follow until it works, it’s been accountable to someone that I think will make the difference as we probably know everything she will say anyway.
There are loads of books on gentle sleep training if you’re not able to pay for a consultant. ‘The No cry sleep method’ was recommended to us by the health visitor. Sorry I am a bit useless but you’re not alone!!