Crawling / 8 month sleep regression

[Louisec128]

My 2nd baby boy's sleep has never been fantastic, but the last two weeks have been particularly poor. He's just mastered crawling and is turning 8 months at the end of the week, could either of these or both be the cause or am I clutching at straws? He use to do a 5-6 hr stint at the start of the night which has completely dissappeared, and he's now waking 4-5 times before 2am! And. It sometimes wide awake for an hour around 3-4 and is up for the day at 6am. I have a toddler too so need to get up at 7am with him so I am very tired these days, I can't remember if he went through the same at this age as his sleep was always terrible as a baby. Please send help 🙏🏼😂😭

My DD was like that. It got better after some months (do not remember how many anymore) so I suppose it's a developmental thing.

My boy is the same. 8 months now, was 2 weeks overdue so don’t know if it’s adjusted age like with premature but I remember the 4 month regression hitting us early. We’ve been going through it about 3 weeks now, I can be up nearly every hour sometimes. I read it’s a sleep regression again, also like your son my boy is just about crawling so is moving so much and waking up. After 3 weeks I got a 4 hour stretch last night then eventually a 3 hour so I’m hoping things are improving and we are coming out the other side. I don’t think the 4 month regression lasted this long for us. I’m hoping things will settle back down to how they were as if they don’t I don’t know what to do!

before he would sleep 7.30-1 feed then from 5am onwards he woke a fair bit. Now he can wake many times before 1, then I sometimes got a 3 hour sleep then 5 onwards. Seems similar to yours I think. Good look hopefully passes asap!

Yes very similar to our pattern, he use to settle 7-8pm, would do a good stretch between 4-6 hours, then another 2-3 hr stretch but touch and go after 5am like yours. But he's not done more than a 2 hr stretch in weeks! He's 8 months in Friday, but was 9 days early.

Yeah… well hopefully it’s just a developmental stage! I have tried for the past few weeks changing schedule and wake windows etc but no luck which makes it a bit easier if it is just a stage. But going through it is a different matter!! Too much of a coincidence but god it’s hard. I wasn’t expecting this to be as hard, I read the 4 month was the worst but this by far is!! I’m praying we get the same tonight or a slight improvement again!