big hugs sweetie! i think interrupted sleep is the hardest thing to deal with when a parent! (because man o man do i lurve my sleep!)

how does he sleep during the day? i found that if DD sleeps well during the day (in her case it has to be 2 sleeps of at least 40 minutes each). i found that her day sleep had a direct correlation with her night sleep.

Also, we had a tricky period with DD around the 7.5-8 month mark as developmentally she was going through some pretty major changes and this threw her sleep out big time for quite awhile (basically until she worked out how to crawl...LOL!).

i occasionally sought the advice on sleep from 'baby love', just to help clear my head when i felt as though i was drowning under the 'what if we try this?' mountain.

best thing i was told was that whatever you do: be consistent and persistent. it works for us and keeps our heads relatively cool when bad nights happen. our thing is when she wakes we resettle her in her cot and walk out, then if she starts to cry we go back in (usually on a tag team basis). if after 3 goes she is still determined then we rip out the big guns (ie boobie ). i know that this can be frowned upon but the instances where it is needed are really rare these days and it works a treat.

we tried the dream feed....never again. found DD started waking up around that time for a feed. sent us backwards. even now 9 + months after we stopped doing it she wakes briefly at 10.30..only for a few seconds and back to sleep on her own, but never again will i do it! (that said, one mum in my group swears by it! so i guess there is merit for some...).

DD on the whole sleeps roughly 12 hours at night (minus nights of teething and colds etc). she averages out on 2 day sleeps with anything from 40 minutes each to (like yesterday) 2.5 hours.

good luck with it all and hang in there, this too shall pass and soon enough we'll be banging saucepan lids over their heads to get them ready for school! LOL!