Sleep regression

[kaelaAmumma2b]

My little wee man was never the greatest sleep but by 4 months old we had him sleeping from 10pm-6am straight. As soon as he got near 6 months he really back tracked and slowest creeped back to 3 times a night. Now it's getting to the point he is waking himself up every 1.5-2 hours and wanting to be in bed with me. I'm struggling to keep myself awake now and have set up a safe barrier for the times I drift off , but I hate this , I don't want our little boy to become reliant on sleeping on the bed. He won't self settle at all , we have attempting everything ( cry it out method both ways , changing his room, keeping him up longer , playing around with his nap times) but nothing is helping. I'll take any suggestions , please anyone I would love to pick anyone's brains on how they resolved this. My main priority is my sons safety and resorting to him sleeping with me just isn't that.

Thanks in advance.

Urgh, nothing worse than tiredness! How do you normally settle him to sleep? For naps/bedtime/when he wakes up? It definitely sounds like working on teaching him to self settle will be the way forward. What ways have you tried and why don't you think they have worked?

Could you sidecar his cot to your bed, so he's got the comfort of being near you without you feeling like he's in the bed.

If he was only waking up 3 times before, that's great! The 1.5-2 hour wake-ups will be a phase, I would focus on survival rather than trying to get the baby to change.