Sleeping

Is anyone having serious sleeping issues with their 8 month old? I genuinely cannot cope anymore, I feel like we are just going round in circles…as soon as we get good at sleeping a regression happens and we are back to square one. Last night my LO was awake from 2am until 5am and would not go back to sleep, tonight and she is waking up every single hour screaming and like she’s afraid of her cot and and like she doesn’t want to go to sleep it’s driving me crazy she keeps scratching the sheet and hitting it with her hands and slamming her feet up and down which is causing her to wake up. My partner is being awful towards her, losing his temper, shouting and making the situation worse and I’m finding it so stressful. I am sat in her room as I am writing this because I’m too scared to leave incase she wakes up…I don’t know what to do anymore. Her naps during the day have never been great but she always has one at 10:30am then one in the afternoon but the naps don’t seem to improve her sleep and she will not self settle either. I’m so lost :(

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@Madison did you do the cry out method??

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My son sleeps 7pm - 6am all the way through… we just make sure he eats, gets changed, and then leave him in his crib. Teaching him to cry it out was hard, but now he gets put down and gets himself to sleep within 10 minutes. And now during the night, if he wakes up, he gets himself back down almost immediately.

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We’re the same!! Usually a good sleeper (wakes once for a bottle) but past few days it’s been about 5 times a night! Last night she was up at 12, 2, 3, 5 and 6.30 and I’m losing my mind!

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I feel like we’ve hit every regression going. After the 6 month regression he started to sleep 7-7 with a wake around 3 for a quick bottle but within the last week his sleep has been awful again. Went down at 7 last night but awake within an hour hysterically screaming and just can’t settle him. Ended up having to take him downstairs where we played for a bit and then tried another bottle. He was awake until 10 and still woke for his 3am bottle!! He only had 2 45 minute naps yesterday and i think when his day sleep is rubbish it makes nights harder.

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How long does your baby nap for? My girl gets worse at night if she’s not slept enough throughout the day. We have tried to drop to 2 x naps but she just isn’t ready and made her really cranky. She sleeps 1 x 30/40 minute nap in the morning, a long 1.5 hour one early afternoon and 30 minutes around 4:30.

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We are having the same thing Our little man has been such a good sleeper but the passed week OMG!! Everytime I lay him down he either wakes up from being unsettled, scratches and scratches the netting on the side of the cot (how loud is that btw), tries to turn over then gets angry when he struggles to roll back and just constantly cries and screams every few hours He’s still in our room so my partner too gets angry at times and we end up arguing at 3/4am as he gets no sleep either and has an early start I’m really hoping this regression goes soon It’s temporary