8 month old frequent night wakings

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DS has just turned 8 months and for the past two months has been waking frequently in the night. He goes to bed at 8 and normally wakes up twice and has to be resettled before his last bottle at 10.30. He then normally sleeps through to 3.30 and after that his sleep is a bit erratic, sometimes he will settle straight back other times he can be awake for up to an hour. I normally end up bringing him in bed with me. I love having him in bed with me but my partner thinks he should be sleeping in his own bed. I don't want to leave him to cry but I would like to stop feeling like a zombie. From 14 weeks to 6 months he used to sleep from 8 till 11, then have a dream feed, then sleep till 8. He would sometimes wake up once in the night but would settle as soon as I gave him his dummy. He has also become much more difficult to settle for sleep in the first place and for naps since about 6 months.

No ideas, just sympathy. Am in the same situation. DS is nearing 9 months and since about 5.5 months his sleep has been getting progressively worse. He has never been a great sleeper, but before 5.5 months he was waking up three times to feed between 7 and 7 and I was totally happy with that. Now it can be every hour. Plus in the past two weeks he is very hard to settle afterwards. He completely lost the knack for self-settling since he learnt how to sit up by himself. He needs someone else to put him back down and keep putting him down until he is asleep. Plus he has been ill/teething/developing separation anxiety. And I am working full time. I am not quite a zombie yet, but have started walking into doors and biting my poor husband's head off for nothing every 5 minutes. Am contemplating CC, but can't do it when he is ill. And also afraid that it will not work but bring some other trouble.

Just go with the flow (I know, not what you wanted to hear!). They do this for some reason, at this age, and both of mine have tested me to the limits during this phase. It does pass but nothing I have tried has helped, just time.

AngelDog might come along with some tips about how developmental leaps are linked to sleep disruption and there's a big huge one at 9 months which might be what's brewing. Personally I found with DD that we had 10 weeks of it :( then she sorted herself out. We're having another phase of the being-awake-for-90-minutes-for-no-apparent-reason thing just now, and it is wearing but I know it will pass.

Hang in there. Not much consolation but your baby has been sleeping better than most people's so far - they can go backwards as well as forwards though!

Thanks for the replies, I've only just seen them. DS's sleep has got even worse, I didn't think it was possible! He now seems to wake every 45mins throughout the night! One of his top front teeth has just come through and the other is coming through as well so I'm going to co-sleep until they're both through. I think after that we're going to try and ditch the dummy and see if that makes a difference, If we can't solve it ourselves we're going to hire the help of a sleep consultant!