Sleepless with 9 month old - any sleep tips?

[Ldowson]

Hi All, Our 9 month old is wearing us out! For the past 5 months - ever since he started teething - he has woken 5+ times a night. We've got a good evening routine and he goes down by 7.30 in his own cot without much trouble. He usually has a good first stretch and then wakes every hour to 2 hours until about 5.30 until he settles into calm sleep until 7.30 am. Though our 3 1/2 year old is up by 6am, so we don't benefit much from that. He's been teething non-stop. Current count is 6, but 2 more are on the way. I'm still breastfeeding and he doesn't take a bottle. We co-slept initially and he still ends up in our bed or one of our 'musical mattresses' with me at some point during the night. Any/all ideas and tips much appreciated!

[crystal7]

No tips I'm afraid but we have a similar situation! My 9.5 month old has always been an erratic sleeper, we've had periods of quite good sleep e.g. 1 quick wake up and even a few 10 hour stretches but at the moment it's awful. 4 teeth so far and 2 more about to break through. E doesn't wake to feed a lot but will wake up and be awake (i.e. crawling around bed, talking, shouting etc) for ages. I'm breastfeeding too but E isn't bothered about feeding in the night, in fact now I avoid it as it seems to wake him up even more (maybe he thinks it's morning??). He has also been waking at 5/5.30 every morning then drifting off again just when I need to get up with toddler. Urgh! I'm going back to work next month so really hoping it just resolves itself. At the moment we cope by co sleeping half of the night/bed hopping! I hope someone else has some tips! If you fancy sharing a (jug of) coffee and comparing notes give me a shout!

[Saffron]

I think it was around this same age that we had a lot of trouble as well (TBH, we've never had a great time with Little Saff's sleep). We introduced a bottle of formula at night, then implemented a formula to water fade with some shush-patting. It moved us from 5+ nightly wakings to 1-2 wakings. xx