First time mama

[Katrinamay86]

Hi can anyone help or give any advice to a first time mum
I have a gorgeous little boy he's 8 month old. His daily routine is he wakes at 6/6:30am most days, he has his first nap at 8am then wakes has breakfast and is awake till 11am, he generally has nap 2 just after 11am. He wakes plays, has lunch around 12:30pm but sometimes won't eat it all. Around 3pm he has his final nap... Now he has 3 naps yes but, he only naps 30/40mins a time never more that's why he has 3. He has a bath at 7pm and between 7:30/8 pm he goes to bed. He wakes up at different times every night, sometimes hell wake at 1:30am for a bottle then go back to sleep till 4am and wake to finish it off or want a cuddle back to sleep. Sometimes he doesn't wake up till 4:30 am he drinks a full 6oz bottle then goes straight back to sleep till 6am. The last few days he's become a whinger, he's got his 2 bottom teeth comi g through at the moment so I'm putting it down to that but I just can't please him at the moment. How do I get him to sleep though the night and also how do I stop him being so fussy? I some3get to a pint where I feel like I'm not good enough or I'm not doing enough or I just want to rum away haha. If anyone could give me any kind of advice I'd be very grateful 😁

All this sounds really normal and there is nothing much you can do except ride it out (and also get as much sleep as you can - go to bed early). When my first one was teething, she was waking every 30 minutes to an hour all night. It happens. They are just miserable. Give calpol. Used to give it at bedtime and then once during the night when she woke. Those months between about 7-12 months were the hardest ones, but it does get easier and it's not anything you're doing. For what it's worth, they really aren't designed to sleep through at that age. Mine slept through around 2 years (and then not consistently - older one not regularly and dependably until about 4).

Do you have a partner? Is he bottle fed? If so, have your partner give you a break? A night away if you could go stay with family or friends?