Ok, so I think DS is in the "9month" sleep regression at 8 months. The last week of sleep has been TERRIBLE! Wakeups every hour or 2 and he will only settle by nursing (or DH will bring a bottle in and he'll sometimes eat from that, sometimes just screams until I come in and nurse him). He doesn't eat that much most of the time, but he'll SCREAM if I try to just hold him or rock him. Admittedly, we've always dealt with all wake ups by just nursing, but we were at one to 2 wakeups a night, usually midnight and 4 or just once around 2-3 am.

I can't deal with all these wake ups and then go work a 12 hour shift. I have to do something!

My thoughts: we probably need to get away from nursing at every wake up. But how? I know he CAN go all night without eating, he has STTN twice in his life, but I would be happy to nurse him just once all night, not 7-8 times (like last night).

Do we CIO? Do I go in, not feed him, then put him down and let him cry? Ugh, I just don't know. But the last couple nights he wakes up within an hour of going to bed so I KNOW he's not hungry and we tried just letting him cry and gave up and went in and nursed after 45 min. He goes to bed awake but does nurse before going to bed. (We nurse, read a book, then go to bed). So no nursing to sleep, but is it still too close to going down to bed?

Any ideas? DH and I are on our last straw. I keep thinking I'll get a sleep consultant, and then don't, but I'm considering it again. I don't know what else to do!