He sounds great Krystie!

My DS has had routines like that in the past, and he's had better and he's had worse. He has tended to wake 4 hourly overnight but we've had long stretches of horrible day sleep patterns and periods like atm when he wakes 1-2 hourly overnight and it seems so random as to why his sleep improves or deteriorates. We've had periods of improvement at 7 and 8 months respectively when he started sleeping longer stretches overnight (the record being 10 hours) and actually started having afternoon naps that went longer than 40mins! (I actually posted in a thread of mbears to say 'chin up, it does get better' before it all went downhill again ). Since he was about 8.5 months old, the day sleeps generally stayed good but the nights have deteriorated again, especially since Christmas. Whatever pattern he has found, it has never lasted long. I think if your DS is in a good routine then to him.

I have had the same responses from people, (family-friends-professionals) about what he "should" be doing at his age. At first it was upsetting me but now I find if I don't mention his sleep, it doesn't get discussed half as much. Some people still ask about it specifically but I try to keep it vague (before I was often listing the times of his feeds the night before because I was really focused on what he was doing ). I am sick of hearing the advice to CC or CIO - like you I don't have a problem with what others do but seriously, people were suggesting it even if I was just talking about my child's sleep (not complaining about it) and they make out like it's some kind of new technique or like it's something I haven't thought of doing before.

Sorry to rant on in your thread! You're definitely not alone (except I genuinely am tired from all the broken sleep I've had lately). My strategy atm is to not mention it to others. Your son is not a textbook baby, he's a real, live, healthy, happy, cuddly little boy.