8 month old night wakings

[Minion]

End of tether approaching steadily here.
It started 3 weeks ago with random shoutings then has progressed to wake ups of 2 hours between 2-4am. Not crying, just wide awake.
She's in tge middle of leap 6, about to cut tooth number 3, transitioning from 3-2 naps and quite possibly in the 8/9/10 month sleep regression.
I'm knackered
The husbands knackered
Please tell me, this is normal and more importantly, that it ends.

Baby fully awake in the night is a nightmare to deal with.

It doesn't happen often for us (DD is 11 months) but when it does and you know baby is fully awake - then the sense of doom is significant because you know how hard it is to get back to sleep from fully awake for anyone.

The key is to do everything possible to not let baby get to fully awake in that wake up.

If that means you getting up, dealing very quickly and fully on to get baby back to sleep. Leaning into the cot, rocking, whatever it is you do. Do it quickly and with massive gusto to avoid the 'fully awake' worse-case scenario.

If you get to that fully awake point though. The most effective way I have found to deal is to completely redo bedtime routine. Change of nappy and PJs, milk feed, cuddles and hopefully 'reset' baby to go to sleep.

Really the best way to avoid massive, long night time awake time though is to avoid at all costs the baby fully waking up. Which usually means being quick to minimise crying and moving (sitting up, standing, all-fours etc)