11 month old frequent waking

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Have posted about DS before, but bear with me. He is teething, but doesn't seem to be in pain when he wakes. I can get him back off to sleep if it's before midnight by patting his back and he goes off okay. If it's after that he falls asleep if I pat him, I go back to bed and think " result" and then literally 15 mins again he's back up again. He did this for 1.5 hours the night before last. Once I'd fed him ( gave in) he went back off for 2 hours and then when he woke I just put him in our bed as I was too exhausted to carry on.

I would try harder to sleep train him as I know he can go off to sleep by himself, but wtf is going on with the waking back up every 15 mins?!
Am I going to end up co-sleeping for the forseeable future to save my sanity? Fortunately DH snores so I often end up in a different bedroom anyway!

Oh my god do I sympathise! My DS is 11months old. I co-slept for 9months but it was killing my back (the position I ended up in). Now when DS wakes as long as he hasn't pooed/been sick then I will stroke his back for a while and then let him fall asleep. If he wakes again I don't stroke I pat him for a couple seconds. It sounds incredibly cruel, but after a while I know that he wanted contact with me in order to go to sleep. I couldn't do it though, not with 2 other 2 other DC who have to get up for school the next day so we have taken the tough approach with DC3 and much as i hate it it seems to be working.

Oh i have no idea what the answer is but i just wanted to say, me too with the 15 min wakings!!!

You have my sympathy! My DD seemed to start waking more often at this age and I was on my knees with tiredness, finally when she was about 14 months, we moved her into her own room and I decided to stop bf her at night. So Daddy was enrolled into night settling, we geared up for cc but didn't need to do it - sending Dad in rather than me turned out to be the key - she decided it wasn't worth the effort to wake up for him and started to sleep through.
Sometimes you do just have to be a bit tough, the baby will benefit from better sleep too.

YY Beamur. That has worked for us. When DS wakes and sees dad there he knows its pointless till the morning. Crap for Dh but great for me - after ll I have done x months of it now so about time its his turn!

If I'd have known how quickly it worked for us doing this, I'd have done it months before.
Night 1 - DD in cot in own room, usual bedtime routine, wakes in night - send in Dad, I hear 'No, Mummy' and DP explains, no mummy, only daddy (much grumbling) woke one more time, same again. Slept til morning.
Night 2 - DD put to bed, wakes in the night, we hear her shout 'NO', DP goes in, gets sent away by cross angry child who them promptly sleeps all night.
Night 3 - no shouting, only sleeping. Result.
Even now, I send in Dad for a quick settle - I know if I go in, she will manage to hang on to me for longer (one more cuddle, one more kiss, a little song??)