10 month old sleep

[Newmumsos]

HELP! Need your wisdom ladies of Mumsnet please..I’m sure I can’t be the only one in this situation but I feel so silly. My baby was your standard doesn’t sleep, breastfed to sleep, ended up cosleeping lots etc baby until 7 months when we did sleep training. He’s always been a very vocal loud crying baby so this was quite traumatic with lots of screaming but it worked and at 8 months he actually slept through one night! However we went on holiday for 2 weeks and he ended up sleeping back in bed with us, feeding lots at night etc..he also learnt to crawl and pull himself up…and now when we lie him down he goes absolutely crazy and SCREAMS for 30 mins. Which is fine as he does then sleep and the time he cries is getting shorter each night, but the problem is he’s then waking up multiple times in the night where he screams for up to 15 mins at which point we go in as I can’t bear to let him cry longer than that, and he won’t let me just cuddle him back to sleep, he’s insisting on being fed. He’s a massive baby who has 3 meals a day and does not need to be fed.

Im on my knees with exhaustion to which most advice I’ve read on Mumsnet says do sleep training - but I’m trying it and it’s like he’s got older and so resistant to it?? Any advice?! Thank you in advance from a very tired mum xx

Bumping out of desperation! Xx

@Newmumsos hi there!

When mine hit the milestones when learning to crawl and pull himself up we found he would wake through the night also. Then it settled but then when he learnt to walk he would wake up in the night again. Apparently it's really common as they learn new stuff.

I'm sorry I don't have any advice but you're not alone!

This is why sleep training nonsense is rubbish. You always hear of people having to do 're-sets' and retraining.

Sorry OP but sleep isn't linear and all the things you mention will have thrown a spanner in the works. Honestly, I would co-sleep so you can prioritise your rest.

My DD is just gone 11 months and we've had this. She learnt to crawl and then to pull up and move around the furniture, then she started practicing in her sleep. We've never sleep trained. I've just coslept and breastfed her back to sleep. She seems to have very recently used her new movement skills to settle herself on her tummy, which she seems to really like (note obviously, she did this, we don't put her down on her tummy). For a few night she's gone from keeping me up for hours to sleeping until 7am straight though. So I'm hoping there's light at the end of the tunnel.