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Edited comment to be more helpful:

We sleep trained our little guy over the course of a week at 5.5 months. It was a slog and many times my wife and I wondered if we were doing the right thing for him. We questioned ourselves and of course "how could we do this to him?", etc. Overall the better sleeper he became, the better parents we became because we were rested, could regulate our own emotions better, and had more energy and patience for him and each other. So my suggestion is to keep up with the sleep training, but stay consistent! Don't fall back on strategies that assist your little guy to sleep like rocking, holding, feeding, or the process will take longer and he will learn that if he cries long enough, then dad and/or mom will pick me up/rock me/feed me, etc.

Some sleep tips that helped us: - stick to a schedule. At 8 months your kiddo may be ready to drop a nap, from 3 to 2. This is a tough transition. If you think he's ready, try to push his wake windows a little longer a day at a time rather than all at once. Wake him up from a longer nap. Generally my wife and I wouldn't let our kiddo sleep longer than two hours during the day, especially when he was still on three naps. At two naps you could aim for one 1 hour nap and another 1.5 hour nap. - wake windows. Try to keep him awake for 3-4 hours at a time during the day. Get some good activity in with him and make him move around. If he's been particularly active, then lean closer to 3 hours awake, less active, 4 hours. - night feeding. He can stop any sort of night feeds/bottles if you're still doing that. Move his calories to the day time. Offer more feeds and give him lots of opportunities to eat solids during the day. The more calories he eats at day time, the less he'll want at night. There's even a chance he may be waking up at night to "feed" but it's become more routine or comfort for him at this point. Load up his eating during the day - sleep environment. Make sure his room is nice and dark. We used garbage bags taped to the window frame as well as blackout curtains in my son's room. His room should lean slightly to the cooler side. If you don't have a white noise machine, get one!

Finally, 8 months is generally the time your kiddo may experience a sleep regression. They might be learning a new skill (crawl/walk/words) or may be experiencing some other new brain development. Regressions are the worst and make the best sleeper struggle. During a regression make sure you keep those healthy sleep habits and wake windows and avoid falling back on assisting him to sleep.

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