Why is my 9 month old waking 6+ times a night?
My son is nearly 10 months old & his sleep has been awful since he was 3 months. From 3 months he hated being in his next to me cot & now hates being in his cot in his room. He wakes 6-8 times a night.
If I let him sleep in bed with me he’ll sleep for 4-5 hours at a time consistently, but the most he’s ever slept in his cot is 2hrs 30mins. A couple of months ago we started seeing a sleep expert & have been following her recommendations.
We’ve been doing the gradual retreat method of sleeping training but he’s still waking up multiple times a night. For reference, the least he’s woken up in his cot has been 5 times (this has only happened once), the most has been 8 times. Getting really fed up with there being no improvement.
His sleep schedule (given by consultant)
7:30am - wake up (although he always wakes before this)
10:30am - 45min nap (I have to wake him)
2:30pm - 1hr-1hr 45min (I have to wake him)
7:45pm - start bedtime routine
8:30pm - in cot asleep/start gradual retreat
His sleep space:
Dark room ✔️
Warm enough ✔️
White noise all night ✔️
Any advice/ideas because I’m seriously fed up with no sleep now 🙈
Extra info, he is eating well & having enough milk during day, he normally has 1 bottle in the night but this is more for comfort than hunger I think.
EDIT : it was a sleep consultant that gave us the above sleep routine and told us how long to have him nap for - before this I was letting him nap for as long as he wanted
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I've no advice but it is still very normal for baby to be waking during the night. Out of curiosity, why do you wake him from his naps? X
Does he sleep in cot during day try feeding more times b4 bed
I personally have never woke my LO from a nap. I think it's important to let babies sleep for as long as their bodies require and to avoid interrupting that as it could make them over tired. My LO was never a great sleeper but for other reasons, we never followed any training etc we have always just followed her lead. Took us until she was 11 months but now she sleeps through and even walks to her room when she's tired. I feel your pain as sleep deprivation is a killer.
Maybe let him sleep a little longer during the day rather than wake him?
the sleep consultant told me he was sleeping too much during the day and that’s why he wasn’t sleeping at night so she gave us the above sleep schedule
before we saw the sleep consultant I was letting him sleep for as long as he wanted during day but his sleep at night was the same, if not worse. They advised us to only give him 45min morning nap and 1hr-1hr 45min afternoon nap at above times
I use to do this, never did any sleep training and let him nap as long as he wanted but I can’t keep getting up 6-10 times a night so started seeing sleep consultant who advised me to wake him from his naps & put him on a schedule. It would be ok if it was short wakings but sometimes he’ll be up for an hour at a time :/
I get babies don’t all sleep through & it’s normal to wake up in. I hit hit surely it’s not normal to be waking up 10 times a night for lengthily amounts of time, sometimes takes me an hour to get him back to sleep. If this is normal idk how everyone is doing it because I can’t survive on a few of broken hours sleep every night x
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