Controlled crying at at months

[Shay1987]

My 10 month old son was sleep trained at 6 months, we did controlled crying and he took to it so well, within 3 days i could put him down in his crib and he would fall asleep within minutes. Once he was able to stand up this all went to pieces. Since then myself and partner have been rocking him to sleep. He naps well in the day and falls asleep within 20-30 minutes at night but he wakes so much throughout the night. He eats a lot through the day and has more than enough of his milk. We are looking at starting the controlled crying method again but am so nervous that it might make him regress. Both of us are like walking zombies. He goes down between 6.30-7pm but is wide awake by 4am with at least 3 wake ups in the night. Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated.

There is a big sleep regression at 8-10 mo as there is so much happening developmentally

Baby sleep is not linear, it doesn't just improve, it often gets worse as well. Teething, development, illness

No advice on sleep training though I'm afraid, I'm one of those mothers who won't do it.

I'm aware there is a sleep regression at that age, this has been going on since 6 months. That's your decision,I'm not coping well with 4 hours sleep a night so am looking for advice or tips.

I was responding to the fact you said you were worried about making him regress.

Anyway, we're on different pages with sleep so i'm out

Just do what you need to do when you need to do it and don't feel guilty. We worked gently on getting ds1 to self settle. Bang, 18m hits and he's been screeching in his cot for about 45 minutes now with me returning every five minutes to calm and settle him. Sleep for such little ones isn't a permanent thing so just do what you want - honestly

My baby’s sleep went to pot around 6 months, carried on with multiple wakings through the 8-10 months regression, but she really did begin to settle down around 10 months and now wakes once or twice a night. I didn’t sleep train just let her do what she needed to do. It is exhausting though, I do feel for you. I have read that if you use sleep training you may well have to ‘redo’ it whenever there’s a regression.