Between 8-11 months the ONLY way that DS would sleep was with me. I got a mattress on the floor where we slept - that way there was enough room for him to toss and turn and me to get some sleep. Otherwise we were up every hour or so - oh, he'd go straight back to sleep when we got there, but would wake up again to seek reassurance. He had separation anxiety bad, then started teething.
BUT, once the anxiety receded and we got a teething necklace, he went back to sleeping by himself.
I have been so close to writing a very similar post lately! I have a similar situation, although Kyson has never been a good sleeper. His longest regular stretches of sleep during the night has been 3.5 hourly, but lately he's regressed back to 1.5-2.5 hourly. He refuses to go back to sleep and just screams until I feed him and rock him back to sleep. He also gets rocked/bounced on a fitball to sleep at bedtime, and for each nap. He's only ever fallen asleep in his cot ONCE. I'm not so worried about rocking/bouncing him to sleep, but I think I might need to do something to help him sleep longer stretches over night. I'm waking with pancake breasts in the morning because of all the night feeds! We may try the technique that marydean wrote about for the evenings, but not sure how that would work once we go to bed because Kyson co-sleeps with us (his cot is sidecar-ed to my side of the bed), so it's not like I'm going to get out of bed to leave him, lol. I actually cope ok with the wakeups at the moment, but we're hoping to be pregnant again soon and DH is worried that if I'm as sick as I was with Kyson, then sleep is going to be a precious commodity.
CF - I hope you can find something that works for you. And if you find some magic sleep technique, then I'm sure there are a bunch of us that would love to hear about it
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