8 month old waking during night

[AmberB22]

Hi all, just after some advice as feeling pretty desperate now!
My 8 month old stopped sleeping well from about 4 months onwards. It recently become too much so we decided to try some sleep training. It went really well in the sense that we now put him to bed awake and he puts himself to sleep really quick, but still wakes every 1-2 hours in the night, and after few times of going back to sleep refuses to go back down unless he's in with us.
Very exhausted parents 😩 any advice appreciated!

Still waking in the night frequently st 8 months is common. Have you read up on the 8 month sleep regression? T got better for us around 12 months.

Sounds pretty normal. My 9 month old wakes 2-3 times a night currently which is pretty good going for him as he has always been a terrible sleeper. I co-sleep as it's the only way to stop the hourly waking!

Yeah I am thinking more and more it's normal, I think it's the parents that tell you their baby has slept through the night for months and my parents and in laws saying he should be! He is a really good baby otherwise so just have to suck it up I think! Thanks for your replies

Same here
Baby porridge last thing before bed worth a try?

@fascinated sleeping through is developmental and there's a sleep regression at this age too

Porridge unlikely to make a difference

I hope so cos it hasn’t been working for me either LoL

Eight months old is still tiny. Waking in then night is normal! Your baby will get it eventually. My eldest two didn’t sleep through reliably until they were 2.. my youngest dc is now 5 months old and I’m up most of the night.
Don’t leave your poor baby to cry.. it’s brutal. It will improve I promise... night wakings are just part and parcel of being a parent

There are loads of these kinds of threads, and all the responses basically say that there is nothing you can do. At all.

There MUST be SOMETHING you can do!! I'm pregnant with my at the moment, give me some hope, please!

That should say I'm pregnant with my first at the moment

You either have a baby that sleeps through or you don't.
I had one of each. One slept through at 10 weeks and unless sick never woke up til 6am, the other was nearly two years old before sleeping through.
you can try anything you feel may help.and it may well work, but til the child sleeps through then you should catch sleep whenever you can.

I think it's easy to get so hung up on reading things about how them sleeping through the night all depends on what you do and how strict you are with nighttime routines and sleep techniques etc when actually you are all right and they either do or they don't and they will get it eventually!
Thanks all for the replies x

They either do or they don’t.. or you leave them to cry. Not something I’ve ever been comfortable with so I’ve always ridden it out. All the books in routines and sleep cycles.. forget them. Just find ways to cope (chocolate and coffee?!)