i dont understand my 10 month old

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hello everyone,

am new to mumsnet and this is the first place i headed the sleep section lol sorry for asking for advice before i've even introduced myself am not being rude it just 1:34 in the morniing now and am sitting at my computer waiting for lo to go back to sleep so am a bit doopy at the moment lol anyway here i go my ds is now 10 months old an i've had a bumpy ride since birth he had severe colic for 4 and 1/2 months after which my hv told me to do controlled comforting and that worked great and i was in heaven when it came to sleep, anyway i dont like leaving babies to cry at all and my both my sons are very attached to me and i hope always will be lol anyway now at 10 months he isnt sleeping through anymore, and he's waking up maybe twice for a bottle which he has learned to feed to himself if i dont give him the bottle he will cry i know if i do cc it would all be over in a night or so with the longest crying period lasting maybe 30-45 min with me checkin every 2 min or so (i know am a chicken ) but now i want another method or advice really something that isnt going to make me leave my baby to cry but something that will work, my hv has rang a couple of times to ask if i'd done the cc yet and at the moment she gettin me info on why its so good

so please some help as i hate not getting proper sleep i know its selfish of me , but its takin its toll

thanks everyone

We also used pupd but at a younger age, and would also recommend it as it means you don't leave your child.

You pick them up when they cry and lie them down again, and use soft repetitive words like 'its only sleepy time'. I have lent my book to a friend, so can't remember the details, but I think at aged 10 months, you should only hold them briefly before lying them down again. Eventually they will stop fighting sleep, but it may take a while the first time. After a few days you may find you just lie them down and they don't complain, and you can leave the room. Good luck.

helo bridge, i'm now on my 5th baby and in my experience, it's easiest to accept that they wake up and need attention. my youngest is 7 months. he slept through lots of nights but also wakes several times on many nights. i feed him and put him back in his cot, wrapped in a sheet so the putting down doesn't wake him. when i'm very tired i just take him into bed. a bath before bedtime seems to help them sleep and getting them out in the open air during the day. hth

I really sympathize! My 8month old is waking up and though DH has been going into him he suddenly is getting hysterical until I finally cave in and breastfeed him back to sleep. I try to do it only once a night as though its easier at the time I know in the long run it will make it worse. Im going away on a course today so will try the baby whisperer method on Thursday when I get back! He only wakes up once or twice but I thought he would sleep through by now as he used to in the early months on quite a few occasions. He is been very clingy at the moment, maybe just a stage!