8-10 month regression help

[Sarah6789]

My daughter has never slept well but hit 9 months and has started waking every hour at night (sometimes more) and has now started fighting naps. She throws and refuses her dummy then screams whether she is in your arms or in her cot.
She had a good routine that was working but that’s gone out of the window.
Having to resort to feeding to get her to sleep which is what I worked so hard to stop.
Any tips? Do what is needed to get her to sleep? Have we reached the sleep training point?
She has a cold so don’t want to let her cry at the moment and has had diahorrea for over a week. Could be teething?

Could be the regression or just a consequence of illness- I'd ride it out for a bit and do whatever it takes to get sleep and reassess when the cold's gone? Mine has teeth breaking through and it's throwing her off too.

I would definitely wait until she’s well again before doing anything. I think when babies or children are ill you just do whatever works - even older kids need a lot more nurture and comforting when they’re poorly and wake a lot in the night. You may well have to wean her off feeding to sleep again once she’s better, but you know she can do it and it’ll probably be quicker as she’s managed before.

Thank you both. The HV scared me by saying to not feed her to sleep again as she will learn but I think you are right. Do what comforts her at the moment and makes life easier for everyone. Whole family now has her cold!

I would completely agree not to take a step back but when they’re ill or in pain it just goes against your instinct not to comfort them. I have worked so hard on teaching my daughter to self settle, gradually. It’s taken months! But when she has difficult days with teething I will let her nap in my arms because she just needs me more. It does, in honesty, set us back a little, bit we get back on track quickly because the majority of the time she knows she sleeps on her own in her cot. I just think you have to adapt for things like illness/teething otherwise you’ll have a sad baby and an even sadder mum!!