Help 8 month old waking every hour

[Tiredmamma123]

I am so done

my baby is 8 months. 4 weeks ago moved into his cot in his own room. Since then has woken every hour every night. He starts at the bottom of the cot. Moves and turns so much he ends up at the top upside down hitting against the barriers of the cot

when does it stop? Is this part of the 8 month sleep regression? The 4 month didn’t last this long.

also dropped from 3 to 2 naps and this hasn’t helped. I am not enjoying being a mum at all. Constantly tired and with a crying winging baby from having crap sleep. Partner is against any form of sleep training so I literally don’t know what to do to help improve the situation

My DD did this too. I put small pillows under the fitted sheet to try and keep them in some semi sensible position
It could also be:
Teething
Coldness
Noise /something in the room.

Is your "partner" doing half the night wakings or are they against sleep training and also against getting up in the night?

There are multiple forms of sleep training and all our lives improved radically when we started getting bigger blocks of sleep

Nope partner isn’t. I understand during the week as he is a lorry driver so he does need sleep - totally fine

but come weekend I still do all the nights. We argued before about it as he thinks he won’t hear the baby or he will let me sleep. Well Sunday morning he decided to try get boogies out of his nose at 8am making him scream and cry knowing he hates it which got me up. Funny he slept in til 10am week before. Inconsiderate arsehole

I don’t think it’s cold. Room is 21.1 now and started around 22. He is in a sleepsuit and 1 tog sleeping bag. He is generally warm bloodied unlike me who is always cold. I could try 2.5 tog? Dark room. White noise like what he had in our room. He never slept through the night but when he was in his next to me in our room I might have got 1/2 wakings. Since moving to his own room he moves so much in the big cot literally rolling and banging everywhere. Also been 4 weeks of dropping to. 2 naps and nothings improved.

what other sleep training could I do? I was wanting to do Ferber. Partner is against him crying. Oh and to add once baby cries a lot he is sick. I tried once the cio and he was sick

I thought by now 4 weeks later he would have gotten used to his cot and stopped moving so much hitting things and waking himself up.

Do you feed back to sleep in the night? If so, I would really encourage looking into cutting the night feeds - my 8m old was waking regularly (4-5 times a night) because he knew he would get milk if he woke up. We went cold turkey and cut all but one feed, so each time he woke I sent DH in instead of me, and it cracked it in one weekend. there was some crying night one, less night two. Baby now sleeps 7-4, feeds, then back to sleep til 7. Everyone is happier!!

No we only feed once. I normally do around 1am currently but I don’t think he wakes for food. To be honest he isn’t a fan of milk and is on 3 solid meals a day. He’s been refusing milk so only way we can get it into him is when he drops off asleep. I’m at a loss as to why he’s waking so much. We are finding him upside down opposite ends of cot etc because it’s much bigger than the crib so don’t know is that is playing a part

There are lots of different sleep training methods. You don't have to use cry-it-out at all.
There are lots of different reasons why your son is waking. In a lot of instances it is due to overtiredness. If your son has just dropped a nap then that may mean he is not actually getting enough overall sleep, this can disrupt his night-time sleep.

Hi,

I have just come across your post and am going through the exact same with my 8 month old. I just wondered if you’ve had any improvement? And if so, did anything help?

thanks