Oh Hun, first of all big cuddles lack of sleep will send you loopy. There have been times I thought I could sleep a week and I have felt total and utter exhaustion, almost dispair.

My DS isn't a good sleeper and is still waking a few times a night. Teething is even worse and there have been times I've slept on the floor in the nursery because it was pointless going back to bed.

From what you describe your DS is waking every 2 sleep cycles. He needs help to learn how to re-settle. I don't do CC so what I'm going to suggest takes some time.

What I would do is pre-empt his wake up. Go in there at about the 1 hour make and wait. Watch him, as he is stiring, pat his bum, stoke his hair, sing to him whatever it is that you do to help him resettle. But don't take him out of the cot. Hopefully with this little bit of assistance he will realise that he can fall back to sleep. Gradually reduce the amount of assistance you give him. Until eventually he won't need mumma's help at all. I did this, and it took about a week of no sleep and a lot of tears from me but it worked. I noticed a change in DS almost after the first night and now he sleeps fom about 7 hours before waking and only needs a little bit of help to go back to sleep. I should say that if at any stage he would cry I'd pick him up and start from the begining.

We still have our bad nights but the are much less frequent.

The other thing you could do is co-sleep. I did this for a while (and still do) because I just needed to sleep. I found DS would cuddle up and settle in and I could easily settle him in bed with me and still be half asleep myself.

HTH

I hope you get some sleep soon as I know how hard it is.

Lv Spring