10MO waking at night

[hiimmumma]

My 10MO keeps waking up for 1hr-90mins during the night. It's usually at 3 or 4am but has been as early as 1 and as late as 5.
He does go back down usually for about 2 hours but takes a long time to get him back off.

He usually feeds the whole time he's awake but I don't think he needs to, I'm just feeding him to get him back to sleep really. He is clearly tired but not crying, although he does cry when he wakes up until I go into his room.

He is breast fed and a good eater.

He only started sleeping through about a month ago (waking up at 5:30am) but now only does that 1 or twice a week and is having this long awake period in the night.
It's killing me. It always then takes me a while to get back to sleep so I'm exhausted every morning!

He does still nurse to sleep every nap and bedtime but he can settle himself if he wakes in the night (well usually!)

If it's a normal phase then I'll just cope with is but if there is anything to be done please suggest away...

It's usual that sleeping through is a transition, rather than a switch. There was a 2-3 month gap between my youngest sleeping through inconsistently until the sleeping through was consistent and every night.

Through this transition, it needs you to be flexible with daytime napping. A baby sleeping solidly for 11h needs less daytime sleep than a baby having 11h of interputed sleep.

For exame if baby sleeping too much and is under tired at nigh. Or baby waking too much at night, meaning over tiredness the following day. You really can flip from over to under tired like that, so being flexible and responsive to awake times in the day is often needed.

A coping mechanism would be a mattress on the floor of baby's room for you, maybe?

Are you wanting to carry on feeding to sleep? Because if not, now might be a good time to start developing more independant settling methods.

Thanks.
I'll look at it more of a transition then.
Up again now at 4am!

His naps to vary depending on the night he's had. I don't think he's waking because he is over or under tired. Tonight for example, he was asleep for 8.5 hours before waking.

I don't mind feeding him to sleep. It's the only time he gets milk, he just always falls asleep at the boob (apart from in the middle of the night when it takes forever) I will wait until he weans off the boob think.