8-9 Month Sleep Regression 😩

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Any advice on how to crack this sleep regression? My LO will be 9 months tomorrow and we’re on our 4th week of broken sleep. Last night he managed to be up almost every hour on the hour and me and DH are exhausted! Throughout the 4 weeks he’s been up 3 times most nights and before this regression he would stir between 10-11pm for a feed and then sleep through.

I remember my eldest’s sleep going to 💩 at this age too (he’s 2.5 now and sleeps so well) but I think we ended up re-sleep training him. I’m debating asking the in-laws to have my eldest for a night to see if we can do the same here. We can’t yet my youngest cry for too long as it wakes up DS1 and then he ends up exhausted too. But if we can remove him from the equation I’m hoping we can give DS2 a few minutes to try and settle himself throughout the night. He was doing it before and I know he can do it again!

Skills wise he’s been cruising and taking steps with support for ages but he seems really close to standing independently now. And took three steps the other day just holding my thumb. So I know there’s a lot going on in his little brain. But we need sleep 😭

Anyone else have any advice?

I find their sleep always becomes terrible when they are cracking learning to walk. It's like their brain is on fire.

You might find that their sleep settles pretty soon anyway.

You just need to ride it out, shit as it is. And then get sorted and then the 12 month one kicks in. Sorry!

@Piggel How are things going? I’m going through something similar with my 7 month old

@CM327509 sadly it seems we’ve gone from one regression to another, with a few nights of ok sleep in between! Our youngest is now 10 months and in the past couple of weeks has started walking. He’s also just mastering how to get up to standing from sitting so I’m really hoping once he has those skills down he’ll sleep better. We were up 4 times with him last night and it’s unsustainable. Both me and DH are at our wits end. It also disturbs our eldest who now demands milk during the night as he knows his younger brother is getting it 🤦🏻‍♀️ I just keep telling myself it will get better as it did with our toddler, who when not being disturbed is an amazing sleeper. But we are very, very tired and very strained. I’m probably not one to give advice atm but just do what you need to do the get through. Follow wake windows or change them if required. Don’t be afraid to cap a nap, that’s what we’ve started doing as of today. Our youngest wants longer wake windows so we’re capping his naps to accommodate for that. Ensuring he has enough day time sleep but not too much, whilst also having enough sleep pressure for the night. What I will say as I’m typing this, is that our youngest doesn’t seem to have much of an interest in milk throughout the day. Our crutch atm is him draining bottles of milk throughout the night. So I might start feeding him in a dark room again. He has loads of food but definitely still needs the milk!

Sorry for such a scattered reply. It’s a real representation of my mind atm! Wish I had some better news for you. I hope you and DC get some rest soon.