9 month old not sleeping, is this teething??

[archiesmummy]

DS has always woken in the night for feeds and lately it's been every 2 hours or so. I've put this down to teething, but last night was a nightmare...
He woke every hour after I put him down at 7 (this happens sometimes and doesn't bother me very much), but when he woke at 10ish I went to bed (we have his cot in our room) and tried to nurse him to sleep, but he was wide awake and refused to sleep, so DH took him into the other room after a while to give me a rest. 2 hours later he finally dropped off only to wake again within 30 mins, this then repeated itself twice in the night so DS hasn't had more than 4.5hours sleep in total.
The previous night was also bad but not quite like last night.
Also, if I manage to nurse him to sleep he wakes up as soon as I put him in his cot, but carries on sleeping if left on our bed.
He is getting his 5 and 6th teeth and this has previously interfered with his sleep but never like this.
I had 1 cup of coffee (not unusual and not too late) both days and I also ate grapes (which I never normally do). Could this have anything to do with it? Or is it more likely to be teething?
I hope to hear from others who have gone through this as both me and DH are very tired and slightly shocked this morning... [exhausted emoticon]

ds has always been a night waker tbh but we had a similar exhausting phase between about 6 and 9 months. He would be waking 5-6 times a night. It might be teething, or might (more likely IM admittedly limited E) just be 'one of those things'. You might have to think about a later badtime - ds does not need all that much sleep and we generally do his bedtime routine about 9. It's a pain sometimes to have such truncated evenings but better than him getting us up at 5 every morning . When things settle you could start bringing his bedtime forward.
It might be easier for you to just go with the co-sleeping for now. It won't damage long-term prospects of getting him to sleep in his own bed and will give you all more rest.
1 cup of coffee and grapes probably won't be causing it.
HTH

bedtime - freudian slip if there ver was one...

LOL foundintranslation...
a later bedtime sounds like a good ide actually, wil give it a go tonight.
thanx

I would've thought it's time to put him in own room...surely? If you can't pinpoint why he's waking, then he's waking for no reason...other than because he knows one of you is gonna come running. Sorry if sound harsh but just been through this with our 7 month old. We go and resettle him the first time he wakes, but if he wakes again after that, we only go to him to check there is nothing obviously wrong, but then leave him to it. Takes 25 mins of crying but then he never wakes again for rest of night. Last 2 nights has slept thru. The idea of controlled crying repelled me b4 i had him....but they DON'T need feeding thru night after 6 months, and unnecessary waking drives you to a level of exhaustion that means you will try anything...!

Meant to say, why not post this on the "sleep" thread. You'll prob get more advice from the experts, they really helped me loads when i posted my probs.

Thank you for the reply terrystyg . Last night we might have been willing to try almost anything, but not CC