My DS turned 8 months a few days ago and right on cue his night time sleep has gone to pot! From about 6 months he has been settling himself to sleep at bedtime, waking once in the night for a bottle, then settling himself straight back to sleep until around 6.30am where he's up for the day. Completely manageable! The last few nights however he's been waking up 2-3 times in the night, screaming the place down and he's really difficult to get back to sleep. It can take 1-1.5 hours to settle him and I usually resort to rocking him to sleep (bad habit I know but I get desparate at silly o'clock in the morning). It's so knackering and also heartbreaking to see him so upset. He's a happy little thing during the day. He's just learnt to crawl, trying to pull himself up on everything and generally loving life. He still self settles at bedtime but only after a lot of sitting up, crawling around, pulling himself up etc. Eventually he's so tired he just conks out 😂
Just wondering if there's anyone else going through this right now or anyone that's gone through this and made it out the other side! I keep telling myself it's just a phase and won't last forever but also praying that it doesn't last too long! Not quite sure how I'm going to survive if it carries on much longer, probably through a combination of sheer determination and a lot of coffee!