Help my baby constantly wakes up!!

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Hey everyone. My bf baby is 9 months and he constantly wakes up after ive got him to sleep. It can be within 10 minutes of putting him down and it carries on throughout the night. Hes done it since he was a baby and i was just wondering if anyone else experiences this as apparently it’s not normal. It just feels like i never get any time to relax either as i can never go and sit in the front room as i know hes just going to wake up. Can somebody give me some advice or tell me if it’s normal please?
thank you

My first was a terrible sleeper, she didn’t stop feeding in the night until she was 2. She had a long period of waking every 45 minutes and having multiple split nights every week where she’d be awake for up to 4 hours in the middle of the night and not a single thing I did got her back to sleep.
It is normal and first of all I’d say don’t stress yourself out trying everything to change the situation, I did and all it did was drive me crazy that it wasn’t working.

secondly I’d ask:

• what’s your caffeine intake like? (I know it’s perfectly safe when breastfeeding but it affected my baby badly, she was a bad sleeper anyway but any time I’d have caffeine she woke every ten minutes all night long)
• were baby’s naps too long/short or are they ready to drop a nap?
• What’s baby’s sleep space like? Is it a good temp, comfortable, is there white noise or sleep aids, is it dark enough?
• Do they go to sleep on their own or could they be waking because they fall asleep with you and wake up without you? (This is worth considering as it’s a big factor for some but not worth stressing over, it didn’t matter how my first went to sleep, she was still a terrible sleeper anyway so I gave up and kept feeding to sleep)

unfortunately some babies are just terrible sleepers, my first is now 2.5 and finally goes to sleep on her own and sleeps 12+ hours a night, so naturally I had another one who I’m sat here with now as he’s also a terrible sleeper!

Hello, this sounds so tough. Do you have any concerns regarding reflux or anything like that? My children both had reflux and it was a rough journey to where they'd sleep comfortably for any stretch.
I'm so sorry, reflux or not this is so tough. My eldest only slept through the night at 11 months, prior to that it would take hours to settle her and then she'd be up again. I was a shadow of my former self.
With my youngest, he slept so well initially that I was very lulled into a 'wow what a great baby' situation and then he hit a big teething episode, my husband was working away, and I spent the whole time glued to the sofa with a baby on me for days on end, no showering, changing clothes etc.
It can be so difficult and feel so lonely. I'm so sorry. You're not on your own at all, there are so many going through the same thing. Big, big hugs. It will get better.

Just to add to this, maybe also worth considering Silent Reflux, there wouldn’t be any actual bringing up milk but all the symptoms and discomfort would be the same.

Yep exactly that, never slept through the night until nearly 2 years old, had a reasonable stretch of walking only once every couple of weeks, and then back to several nights a week again once he started school nursery.
Now he's back in with us in the same room and sleeps through almost every night.
My main advice would be be flexible, and never read online advice, your baby's sleep is 90% your child and 10% you, so if nothing is working then it's not your fault!
Hang in there!.

Oh god yea its normal lol my dd is 10 months and has only just started sleeping for 2 hour blocks through the night this last week or so, before that it was every 40 mins and sometimes awake for couple hours in the night too, she also goes through phases where she will have a feed and then just flop around my bed trying to get comfortable and crying for hours, and at one point i couldn’t put her in her cotbed without her waking up n crying, so i moved her cotbed over to my bed and took the side off so its like a big next to me cot, now i can bf her and slide her over without waking her too much, she will sometimes bf and then crawl over into her cot and fall asleep by herself sometimes too, wish i had moved her cot sooner xx

Yep my bf baby was like it!!! Sleep dramatically improved as soon as I stopped bF (13 months) nothing else changed,
no sleep training. She suddenly and I mean suddenly slept through the night. Yet woke like yours did all first year. Hang in there xxx

hi everyone does anybody elses babies veins stand out? Ill upload a pic. Does this look normal they don’t normally stand out on the forehead that much but they do on the side of his head.