I am obsessed with my 9 month old's sleep! I'm curious to see if any of you bees have any a similar situation and could offer up some strategies:

My little guy is a champ at going down for the night. We have a really good, solid bedtime routine and I put him down awake and he rolls over and falls asleep. Sometimes he'll putter around in the crib for a while first, but tears are quite rare.

However, he's still waking up every few hours over night. I usually just go in and feed him (he's still breastfeeding) since that usually does the trick in ten minutes or less and we all go back to bed. But I can't remember the last time I got a stretch of sleep longer than 3 or 4 hours!

I really don't think he's hungry - I think he just hasn't learned to soothe himself back to sleep once he's woken up. We've tried letting him cry it out, but it's too hard for me to handle in the middle of the night. I've also started to try to feed him shorter and shorter and try not to let him fall completely back to sleep before I put him back down. If he's not totally asleep, he does cry for a few minutes, but then falls asleep.

I had hoped that once he knew how to go to bed by himself, he'd be able to put himself back to sleep if he woke in the middle of the night! Any advice would be appreciated - success stories too please!