Sleep regression?

jwebb0512 · May 2013

DD just turned 4 months on Monday. He used to be such a good sleeper, but lately, he naps maybe once a day for 20 minutes. He was going to sleep at 7:30 and sttn, but now he stays awake until 9 or later and has been waking twice a night to eat. My husband is deployed, so it's just me and I'm starting to feel like a zombie I'm so tired! It doesn't matter what I do...rocking, noise machine, singing...he is wide awake. We can't swaddle anymore bc he can roll over. Help!!

DublinMama · May 2013

I feel for you. DS used to be a great napper and pretty good night sleeper. I could put him in the swing, and he would be out in 10 minutes and sleep for an hour or more. Now it takes 30 minutes to get him down, and then he only sleeps for 30 minutes. No matter where I put him to sleep, he wakes up in 30 minutes. He is not STTN, but I used to get two solid 5 hour stretches and he would go right back to sleep after eating. Since we moved him to his crib three nights ago, he's been getting up one hour earlier for all his feedings and for the day, even though he goes to bed at the same time as when he was sleeping by our bed in the RnP.

My husband is home, but gone 16 hours a day and can't be much help when he is home because he has to sleep to be able to work (he goes to school full time and he works with dangerous saws and machines at his job that could really hurt him if he wasn't rested enough to use them properly). It's a killer. I posted about it, myself, and the general consensus is that while their so young, their sleep habits are variable, and all you can really do is talk about how much it sucks. It sounds like you are trying all the right things. Hang in there, mama!

sbevmc09 · May 2013

You're probably hitting the 4 month wakeful. Read up on it. GL!

annmarieki · May 2013

We switched to the merlin magic sleepsuit once we could no longer swadddle and are back to normal 8+ hours of nighttime sleeping after 2 weeks of misery when she could no longer be swaddled. I read lots about it on the web site and bought one a few weeks ago. Best thing ever!