Good Evening all,
This is my first time posting & hopefully I am posting on the correct thread. Also sorry for what has turned out to be a long post. I'm at a complete loss with my baby son's night time sleep and I am reaching out for some help/advice/support. Just for context I have a 6 year old who has been sleeping through the night since she was 6 months old. I understand that every baby is different. My Baby son has just turned 8 months old. His night time sleep for the past 6 weeks has been horrendous to say the least. We put him down in his cot around 7.30pm/8pm and within 20 minutes he is crying out. We'll tag team it to go in & soothe him, put his dummy in, shush shush. This will happen every 10 to 20 minutes over the next one hour to two hour period before me & my husband just reach the point that no amount of trying to settle him seems to be helping and we resort to bringing him in bed with us just so we can all sleep. It does mean my husband sleeps at the end of the bed to allow for baby son to sleep next to me. My Baby son will then sleep peacefully with no wakings/crying out. We only want this to be a temporary solution not long term as we don't feel we get any down time as our evenings are spent crying to settle him & once his in bed with us then it's lights out. He is dribbling excessively in the daytime and I know he is teething at the moment so I am not sure if that is the reason for the constant crying out at night or if it is a comfort thing as in the smell of us as like I say once he is in our bed he does not cry out/wake up. I am at a complete loss at to what to do to get him to sleep in his cot without him continuously waking up/crying out. If I could afford a sleep consultant/ night nanny I honestly would as me & my husband just want our bed back and our evenings back. Just so we can have time to decompress. Has anyone else been in a similar position or got any advice on what I can do? Or is it a waiting game for when his teeth do come through he will then be okay to sleep through. Honestly feel like I am double guessing myself and have no clue what to do to help.