My baby is 7mo. He's fairly easy to settle as a general rule. Mostly he feeds to sleep, but can be settled other ways, especially by not-mummy carers :-)
The problem is that after a brief period of sleeping for 6 or 7 hours from 8pm he is now waking up every 3 hours maximum, sometimes every 1.
The worst bit is that I can't even get him back to sleep now, especially as the night draws on. He wakes up wanting to play. I keep it dark and boring, don't talk, don't make eye contact, just try and feed him, but he only wants to caterpillar and crawl his way around the bed and if we put him back in the cot he gets very frustrated.
As a test my dh was on first response last night and I slept in thr spare room with ear plugs. Only twice did baby actually need to come to me for a feed (although even those were quite close together for a baby who is eating a large amount of solids now) Thr rest of thr time he just wanted to play