My 10 month old has not slept through the night for several months now. He's been sick off & on so I know some this has been part of the reason but I also believe he wakes up and realizes he's alone & starts crying for attention. When he's sick, especially when he was having trouble breathing at night, we'd let him sleep with us. A big 'NO NO' but it was the only way for all of us to get any sleep. He'd get better and sleep all night in his bed for a few nights and then he'd catch something else and would be sick for 2 weeks at a time. Right now he has micoplasma and still fighting a viral sinus infection. He starts out asleep in his bed and will sleep for 1-2 hours and then wakes up crying, usually standing up in his bed, waiting for us to come and comfort him. I usually rock him back to sleep, lay him back in bed and he's out but then again wakes up a few hours later. Our nighttime routine is usually a bath, read to him or if he's real sleepy rock him to sleep with music going then put him in bed. We've tried laying him in bed and letting him fall asleep on his own and he did that for a while but once we took the mobile out of the crib he hasn't gone to sleep on his own. We have a musical projector that displays ocean animals on the ceiling above his crib and he'll look at it but he always stands up in his crib and cries for us. We really don't like the cry it out method but unfortunately had to use this Saturday night. We've tried letting him cry for a minute or two, go check on him, lay him down w/out picking him up and sometimes he'll go back to sleep but sometimes he doesn't & fights so bad that we'll pick him up, rock him and put him in bed asleep. I don't have a problem with rocking him to sleep whenever he wakes up. We both enjoy that time but I feel like he may be depending on that now. He's a great baby and we have no trouble with him. As I mentioned before he used to sleep great but since he's been sick his sleep has never been consistent. Any suggestions & support is welcome.

my daughter is 10 months old.  She has been having a hard time sleeping too. She is healthy but teething.  she was waking ever 2 to 3 hours wanting to nurse and cuddle.  I have discovered she was not eatting solids becuase she could not feed herself so I switched to the baby food pouches she can feed herself and now she is eatting 3 times the amount she was before.  She is also going 5 to 6 hours most nights.  So she is getting better.  I am working on trying to stretch it more but we will see.  Sorry that is proably not much help but good luck.