Ds is the same. Wakes several times a night, always looking for the breast. Sure sometimes me stirring in my sleep wakes him up, same with dp he probably wakes him up too, other times I have no idea! But I choose not to see it as anything wrong. Sure don't get me wrong, I would love to have a full nights sleep, but if that's not going to happen then I am just going to get on with it, not stress about it, just accept how it is and when he is ready he will sleep through. Went through the same thing with my dd who has been consistently sleeping through for the last 6 months or so. I did go to a sleep clinic of sorts (a 2hour session run by the mchn) and tbh I felt that my situation wasn't that bad to need to go to a sleep school. I felt compelled to go to this session thing because everyone around me were boasting about how their kids were sleeping through, it started to feel like I was being pressured to do what I had to do to get my child to sleep through. So instead of implementing "contolled comfort strategies" I plodded along, learnt to catch up on sleep where I could, let go of the expectation that my kids have to sleep through the night or having to actively try to get them to sleep through. That's what has got me though it. Fingers crossed ds will come good when his canines have finished cutting through, I dont like to blame teething but it must be rough having another 4 cut through at once! And he's 15months now, might see in the near future if setting him up in a king single bed might give him him space to sleep by himself, or room for me to bunk in when he wakes up
I agree with what Kaze said! My DS is 19months now and doesn't sleep through. 3 wakes a night is awesome here, but rare normal is more like between 4 and 8 times. I am tired all the time but some days are worse than others. I know this is not forever and before you know it they will be grown up so I'm just going with it.
I like Kaze don't see it as something wrong. All babies are different, have different needs etc there really is no "normal" Hang in there she will sleep eventually. Honestly I found the 6 month mark was terrible I thought it would never end and I was never going to sleep again ever! But it seemed to get easier from there, maybe you start to get used to it Now at 19 months it's still exhausting but I have less days of wanting to cry, or, throw up.
We co-sleep DP is a heavy noisey sleeper which drove me insane at first waking DS with snoring, grunting, coughing and just being generally restless. He decided after a while he didn't want to sleep in the same bed as he thought he might roll over and hurt DS in his sleep. So, now DP sleeps in our room on his own, and I sleep in DS's room with him. Hopefully once he sleeps through I'll be able to just go back to my room and he won't miss me until he wakes in the morning ...I can only imagine at this point
I've actually ordered Pinky MKkays Sleep book, just to see what she says. She doesn't seem to believe in controlled crying or "controlled comforting" so I'm interested to see if she has any tips for helping him to sleep through, or at least get down to one or two wake ups. I'm happy to co-sleep for as long as he needs me to, but more than 1 or 2 hours sleep IN A ROW would be heaven!
Anyway sorry to ramble on. (see sleep deprivation ) Good luck I hope you get what you need soon
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My DS is 19months now and doesn't sleep through. 3 wakes a night is awesome here, but rare normal is more like between 4 and 8 times. I am tired all the time but some days are worse than others. I know this is not forever and before you know it they will be grown up so I'm just going with it.
she will sleep eventually. Honestly I found the 6 month mark was terrible I thought it would never end and I was never going to sleep again ever! But it seemed to get easier from there, maybe you start to get used to it 
Now at 19 months it's still exhausting but I have less days of wanting to cry, or, throw up.
...I can only imagine at this point 
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