7, almost 8 month old struggling with sleep. HELP

[Givemesomesleep]

In need of some advice please. My little one from day 1 has not been a great sleeper, very different to DS1 who is now 6 years old and was/is a very good sleeper.

Baby only has two naps a day can be a total of 2 hours (both an hour long) if lucky or an hour and 20 mins (both 40 mins).

I follow wake windows and hes never awake more than 3.5 hours.

Typical schedule when he naps for an hour:

7:30am: wakes up
8:00am: milk (5/6oz)
9:30 am: breakfast usually baby porridge
10:00/10:30am: nap (1 hour)
11:30: milk (5/6oz)
12:30: lunch
14:00: nap (1 hour)
15:30: milk (5/6oz)
16:30/17:00:dinner
18:00: bath
18:15: milk 7oz
18:30: sleep
Tends to want a feed around 2 am (6/7oz)

He falls asleep easily, black out room, just right temperature, white noise on. However he starts to wake up within 40 minutes , give him a dummy hes asleep then from there its like every 10-20 mins after 10pm will be every hour then sleep through from 3am-7/7:30am..usually because hes in our bed

Im finding it very exhausting as im on my own most of the time and can't have 121 time with ds1 in evening in regards to school work or jus general stuff...

Baby is bottle fed and sleeps on next to me crib

. I cant do his naps earlier as he refuses to sleep so i go with his cues which luckily fall in the 3-3.5 hour wake window

Any tips/advice most welcome..

When you say he wakes what does this mean. Is he grunting, rolling about etc or actually screaming the place down?

Crying woth rolling most of the time eyes opened.. Most of thr time can pat him back to sleep or the dummy helps

I think I would look into sleep training. It isn’t always popular on here but done correctly it can save a lot of heartache for everyone.

going through this myself. Baby is 8 weeks, moved into own room about 3/4 weeks ago and issues started. Same time we moved to 2 naps.

I have looked online and posted too, seems to be a regression at this age and a lot of struggles. We were literally having hourly wakings all night, nothing we did with naps or schedules or wake windows helped. Lot of rolling around etc, it’s a big developmental stage for them at this age. Now the last 2 nights I feel like it’s slowly getting better, eg slept 7.30/11, fed, up a few times again til 1am then slept til 6. Although not great it’s a big improvement and we changed nothing. Hoping it continues to get better

@SpookyHollow thank you for the suggestion

@Tiredmamma123 ahh big hugs its not easy. Im thinking of putting him in his own room and transitioning him to the cot but the thought of physically getting up every hour sounds utterly exhausting right now. I think il keep on going and see hw it goes. Ive read about this development stage and it can last until 9 months for some even 12 months 😢

@Givemesomesleep im finding this one much harder than the 4 month regression everyone said was the worst! I thought we were slowly improving 2 nights I got decent chunks of 4 hours but last night started 10am and every hour!! I think putting him in how own room/cot made it worse for us so if you can hold out til it’s over to help do that! I hope you had a great night and slept loads!!! 🌸