Please help!!! I have an 8 month old boy who has recently started waking up constantly through the night (I'm up with him right now at 1am for the 5th time.)
A bit of background: from around 3 months of age he has slept really well, usually around 11 hours a night, sometimes waking up once or twice but never more than that and rarely for a feed.
We have recently moved house (out of my parents house) and since then his sleep has been awful. It may have started a little before we moved out but I'm so sleep deprived I can't remember anything before 10 minutes ago. He slept in a bedside bassinet at my parents house and when we moved we tried putting him in his own room for the first time. He woke up screaming after about 20 minutes every time we put him down so we thought maybe he's just not ready yet. He's now back in our room in a bigger bedside bassinet but his sleep isn't much better.
Our routine: we usually do bath time around 7 followed by a bottle and then I'll try to put him down awake but he never goes to sleep alone so I rock him to sleep (we don't use any bath products as both myself and his dad have very sensitive skin and we wouldn't want to make his flare up). After that I'll put him down and he'll normally have a good stretch of around 3 hours, in which time I get the housework done, wash bottles, have my tea etc. And then I'll get into bed and just as I'm about to fall asleep he'll wake up. I always try giving him his dummy first but he'll still be moaning so I pick him up, rock him to sleep and put him back down. This same routine happens every 30mins to an hour every night.
I have resorted to putting him in bed with us a couple of times and he'll sleep through the night if I do that. He sometimes wakes up but I'll give him his dummy and he goes straight back to sleep. I know I shouldn't put him in bed with us but it's so hard not to when I know he'll sleep that way and I'm KNACKERED.
I went back to work about a month ago (working from home) so I can't even nap when he does in the day anymore
. During the day he'll normally have 3 45ish minute naps. He also used to nap a lot longer during the day before we moved out so I don't know if he's just getting used to sleeping in a new environment.
Does anyone have any advice at all?? We don't want to just let him cry. I know he isn't waking because he's hungry because as soon as I pick him up he goes back to sleep. Also he doesn't have any teeth yet if that makes a difference.