How did you survive the 8 month sleep regression?!

[DaringtoDream]

Baby turned 9 months today and has always been a frequent night waker but for the last 4 weeks she has been sleeping on myself or my husband at night and it's exhausting. Hubby works away a lot and she's breastfed (always refused bottle and dummy) so it mainly falls to me. I also have a toddler at home so there's no catching up on sleep and I'm full on zombie. Any 8 month sleep regression survivors out there, can you tell me when it ended for you? I don't know how much longer I can survive on zero sleep 🙈😩😱

Hi!
Mines 5 now but I just used to chuck her in my bed and cosleep at that age when sleep regression hit, I had to go back to work so needed some kind of alertness to get me through 😂.

I would get her to sleep in her cot (which was still in my room at that point) and used the pick up put down method as I felt it important she got into the habit of actually nodding off in her own bed.

If she woke in the middle of the night, well, that was fair game and I just snuggled her in with me as I couldn't be arsed faffing when we both could have dropped back off in minutes in my bed.

She just stopped waking as often in the night, got less and less.

If it's any consolation, she can't get enough of her bed now and more often than not I'm having to battle to get her OUT of bed for school. Saturday and Sunday she would sleep until 10am if we've got nothing going on. She goes sleep at 8pm each night. Just likes her kip (which I'm eternally grateful for).

Thanks for the reply. Can you remember how many weeks the regression lasted with your little girl? I had mine in the bed with me last night but she woke every 30 minutes, the only thing that soothed her was breastfeeding but I'm such a light sleeper I couldn't even dose whilst she fed so managed about 45 minutes of sleep in total last night 😩 she took her first steps yesterday so I'm praying maybe her sleep will improve once she's cracked walking 🙈