Babies: 3 - 6 Months

What exactly IS the 4 month wakeful?

So here are the many different things I've heard that cause the 4 month wakeful

 

-Change in sleep cycles. Now babies who need mom and dads assistance to go down, will require their assistance every time they wake up to go back to sleep. Learning to self soothe (sometimes through CIO) is sometimes necessary to help babies learn to go back to sleep on their own.

-Developmental. Babies go through a huge mental leap and have issues falling asleep because of this, so they should require more assistance to go down and may need you to revert to soothing techniques to help them through this (so no CIO)

OR

-Developmental. Baby is more socially aware and wants to be around you more, so sleep training may be required to remind them night is for sleeping.

-Distractability. Babies are more distracted in the day, causing them to reverse cycle by eating more at night when there is less things around to distract them.

Basically.........I'm still unclear onto what it is.  Or is it a mix of all of these things, and we just compound things when we react one way or another? So weird. so confusing. so not excited for if/when this occurs (LO is 15 weeks)

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Re: What exactly IS the 4 month wakeful?

  • To put it simply, it's the devil disguised as all those things.
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  • imageDublinMama:
    To put it simply, it's the devil disguised as all those things.
     

    This...lol!  It will be ok, just roll with whatever comes! 

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    I didn't notice a wakeful period with DS. He actually started STTN at 4 months exactly and has progressively been getting better at sleeping at night. Every baby is different, so try not to worry too much about it. 
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  • I am holding my breathe for what is to come. I feel like I got a small taste of it last night. One of my boys was fussing at midnight, then needed to eat at 1:30, and stayed up another hour "talking" amd cooing. I didn't entertain him. I just let him be playing in his crib. My boys never fuss in the middle of the night and always go back down right away. So this was new.
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  • My LO started sleeping longer through the night. She is almost 17 weeks and I haven't seen it yet
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  • I wont tell you what's going on here. There is no real point to sleep train before the 4 month. Lots of changes. Expect nothing, not good or bad. Just keep coffee handy.
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  • imageDublinMama:
    To put it simply, it's the devil disguised as all those things.

    Amen sister! I'm in the midst of this now and it's 1. very real and 2. horrible! My LO is awake every 1-2 hours and is constant nursing. I'm a human binky and very unsure of what to do! Oh wellll 

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