Nine month old baby wakes EVERY hour. Can't cope anymore.

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Our DS has never slept through. The longest he's ever gone is 3 hours. We've just learned to cope with it but now I'm at my wit's end and I can't take it anymore. He wakes screaming - and I mean ear piercingly screaming - every hour. From 7pm till when we get up in the morning. He was EBF until around a month ago and as of last night fully bottle fed. He has the best part of 7oz bottles at 11am, 3pm, 7pm, 11pm and 3am. And three meals a day with yoghurt for afters. During the day he is a normal contended baby (if quite wilful). Desperate for sleep, we now sleep with him in our bed. It helped very slightly at first but now the only thing that it helps with is not having to continually walk through to the nursery to settle him.

I've noticed that we can't leave his nappy through the night - if it's not changed at 11pm it gets so wet it leaks everywhere. Don't know if this is indicative of anything?

Is this beaviour even in the realms of 'normal' or is there something seriously wrong? I'm worried for him and for us. Please help.

My ds started waking every 40 minutes at 9 months - I think what happens is they somehow lose the ability to resettle themselves at the end of the sleep cycle. He was also a lovely baby during the day.

We tried cc one night. He cried for two hours, fell asleep sitting up (that made me so ) , woke again in the night and started to chew on the bars of the cot. When I went in his face and sleeping bag were covered in flakes of paint. I gave up and took him into bed with us. That meant I could cope, but he stayed being a bad sleeper for ages. Until he was 2.5 he used to sleep holding on to my hair and then I started to get dh to pull him over to his side of the bed. At about 3 we started getting him to go to bed in his room and come into ours when he wanted us. Anway, he's five now and sleeping in his own bed - I can't quite remember when that happened. He is a very intense child, normal, I would say, but very full on.

I don't know if that is helpful, and I'm not sure if I did the right thing. I suspect there wasn't a right thing to do.

My DS 11months is the same and wakes roughly every 45 minutes if he's in his cot. I didn't want to do CC so have moved him in to bed with us.
Night weaning might help. Could you try to move all of his feeds to the day? I feeds at 8, 12, 4 and 8.

Take turns having sleep/childcare nights?
Dd responded very well to liquid cosh Gold label for hungry babies last bottle
Hope you get some sleep soon

My 9.5 months old DS is doing the exact same thing since a few weeks now, wakes up all the time when only a month ago he could sleep through from 7.30 to 5AM... Now he wakes up every hour. He's teething for the moment and has a massive separation anxiety issue, when he wakes up at 10, 11, 12, 1AM he's happy to lie there holding my hair and smell my pillow. I hope it's only a phase...

I agree with hard boiled and think you need to move your feeds to earlier times of the day because he is capable of doing a long stretch he just has them mixed up slightly at least that way if he does wake up in the night you know he's gotten most of his needs through the day

Very similar to mine, he's 9 months. He's not every hour, but he's already woken up one since going to bed at 7pm and he'll wake through the night at random intervals. We also have the champion wetting issue. Have just changed to Pampers Active fit and they made it through till morning without the change I've been doing at 10:30pm after the top up feed. It was like he had a balloon between his legs come morning though.

Things have improved a little since I stopped feeding him before 5am. He often wakes but I give him a sip of water. Settling sometimes is short and sometimes 1.5/2 hours of crying Utterly unpredictable.

The 8 month 'sleep regression' (can be 8,9,10 months) is apparently well documented. Google it. Although it's hard to find the regression when your LO has never had a good pattern to start. I think there is so much going on at this point, teething, crawling, much brain development, separation anxiety. If having him in your bed makes it easier and you get a bit more sleep just go with it. It's OK!

We had to do CC this week with DD (7 months), who was the same, but because I'm back at FT work I just couldn't cope.

3 nights (same as her older sister) of hell and now she sleeps through. I am no longer crying lots. :) Neither is she. :)

Hi everyone ..please can I get some advice. My neatly 9 month old boy takes his feed at 7.30pm lying on me and then falls asleep . I then put him down in the cot in his own room and within an hour he's awake crying ...we put his dummy back in and usually he goes off but then he's awake every bloody hour . I have had no sleep again last night and I'm knackered! He isn't crawling yet and is a big baby but has 3 meals a day including snacks so I presume he's not hungry in the night....it's not a distressed cry and he does go off again but not for long. He doesn't sleep great in the day either...maybe a hour in a morning and an hour in the afternoon. Please help!! X

Re the nappy leaking it sounds obvious but have you tried the next size up? Good luck my son was the same. He's now 2 and a fab sleeper it will get easier xx