I know baby sleep questions have been done to death but I'm starting to lose it! DS is 9 months and is a horrible sleeper. I feel like I'm going to cry every day I'm so tired. I'm supposed to be starting work again and I honestly don't see how I can if I'm not getting any sleep.
He goes to bed OK usually at 7pm and will sleep till about midnight. But as soon as midnight hits he's up. Sometimes every hour. Last night we couldn't get him back to sleep after he woke at 12:30 until 3am. Then he was up every hour till 6:30 when he was wide awake for the day. This is not unusual. I had him in bed with me but he still won't stay asleep.
Usually he wakes up crying, sometimes he just stands up in his cot, sometimes he gets on all fours and rocks back and forth singing. He's just awake.
I'm being pressured by my parents/outside family to just leave him and let him cry but DH and I don't feel comfortable doing that. But we're so tired we end up arguing in the middle of the night and resenting whoever got that extra hour of sleep.
Is there any hope or do I just have to deal with it until he's 2?