My 16 week baby boy has been sleeping through the night since about 8 weeks typically 9-6 AM without a pacifier and in his own crib. Now he's waking up anywhere between 1 and 4 AM. I'm breaking baby rules by feeding him in bed when he does this on my side and letting him fall asleep with us. He sleeps through the rest of the night this way and we get rest too. Are we "breaking" our baby? I'm scared he will get accustomed to this and it get progressively worse like refusing crib all together. Thoughts? Just a short phase?
Re: Sleep Regression
I didn't think much about breaking baby rules, I think just do whatever you need to do to survive! I work so sleep is scarce in my life.
Good luck! Hopefully our LOs will go back to sleeping 7-8 hours soon
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Does the regression just stop eventually, or do we have to do something to "fix it"?
He has no problem falling asleep on his own at bedtime, but if he wakes in the night, he needs to nurse. If we try to soothe any other way, he cries harder and harder. I'm realizing I need to break this sleep association in order to get sleep myself. I am struggling because he still needs to eat a couple times a night. How do I feed him for a couple wake ups and get him to soothe himself back to sleep for all the other wake ups?
So, yeah, it's definitely a 4 month thing and i guess I remember it fixing itself after they hit all the new milestones and process all the new things going on inside and outside if them these days as they're more vivacious and alert and increasingly mobile. Atleast that's my take.