Looking for help with my 8 month old’s routine

Hi, looking for some help! I’m struggling with my 8 month old’s sleep. He is breastfed and used to wake around twice a night for feeds but has been waking up to around 8 times most nights for the past 6 weeks.

This is his current schedule:

6.00/6.30 - Wake

3 hr wake window

9.15 - Nap (1 hour)

10.15 - I wake him up

3 hr 45 min wake window

14.00 - Nap (1.5 hours)

15.30 - I wake him up

4 hr 30 min wake window

20.00 - Bed

I usually wake him from his naps as I don’t want him having too much daytime sleep. I’ve been told I should build the sleep pressure before bed, particularly as he’s an early riser.

Are his wake windows okay? Should I be waking him from his daytime naps? Did I drop the third nap too early? Is this a scheduling issue or just down to development? He’s currently crawling, pulling himself up, babbling etc.

Would love to hear advice and suggestions! Thank you!

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No advice as such but my little girl has just turned 8 months and is the same. She’s on a similar schedule but shorter wake windows and she wakes a lot over night and is very disturbed. She’s teething, crawling, pulling herself up, making new sounds. I think it’s just developmental and we have to ride it out 😫. I vaguely remember the same with my eldest but good lord I’m wondering how I’m still standing come the evening. Exhausted!

My LG is nearly 9 months and was having the same issue, turned out to be a bit of separation anxiety so we’re currently Co Sleeping for everyone’s sanity🤦‍♀️ I’ve noticed that my little girl is better with shorter wake windows, normally has a 3-3.5 hr gap between last nap of the day and bed time! I did used to do 4 but found she was a lot harder to settle for sleep so adjusted and now bedtime is a lot easier! Xx

My daughter was the same! Went from 2-3 wakes to hourly. We used “nights with nat” on Instagram for some sleep support and it’s been really helpful. She now sleeps through after just one week of our new routine and if she wakes, it’s only once 🙂

My little girl is same sort of age and we are in the exact same boat, her nights have been pretty awful since just before christmas - she wakes hourly most nights so we've resorted to cosleeping for the most part. She starts the night in her cot and then about 11pm will come into our bed and she sleeps better there. I've tried all sorts of schedule adjustments and nothing helps so I think it's just developmental. Her current schedule is wake up, awake for 3 hours, naps for 30-45 mins, awake for 3 hours, naps for 1.5 hours, awake for 3-3.5 hours, bed. Fingers crossed all our babies start to enjoy their sleep a bit more soon!

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