Sleep Regression did it get better?

anythingelseplease · July 2012

So around 4 1/2 months my baby started waking up many times during the night. Previously she was sleeping at least 4 hour stretches and typically 5 or 6 hours. Now she is waking up every 2-3 hours. Some nights staying awake for 1-2 hours in the middle of the night. She needs to be nursed and then rocked to sleep and put down in her crib when she is completely asleep or she will just wake up 10 minutes later and start crying (hysterically). It has been about 3 weeks of this and she is about to turn 5 months old. At first I chalked it up to getting used to being home again (we had gone away to visit family for almost a month) and then to the 4 month shots, and then to teething (she cut two teeth a few weeks ago), and now I have no idea what is going on. The sleep deprivation is stating to get to me and I was wondering if anyone else has been going through this and has your baby gone back to their old ways? We haven't started solids and I wanted to wait until 6 months but am thinking of maybe starting sooner in hopes that maybe she will get the hang of it and fill herself up more and sleep a little better. I am grasping at straws here.

lauranoelle09 · July 2012

I don't have much advice for you, but I just wanted to say I am going through the exact same situation with my son. He is a mess at bed time and is sooo hard to get to sleep, then wakes up every 2 hours and sometimes decides to stay up at 2 in the morning. He will be 5 months tomorrow, and we just started solids 2 days ago, hasn't seemed to help much yet. I'm thinking he might be teething too. I hope your situation gets better, I know how no sleep can get to you.

aglenn · July 2012

Same boat here as well. DS was doing soooo well and then it all fell apart a few weeks ago. I have been bringing him back into my bed because I'm too tired to keep getting up. Sigh. I hope it gets better soon.

n8swife · July 2012

I have no advice because we're in the same boat. It's exhausting. I'm chalking it up to teething but who knows anymore. I hope it gets better soon!

btartaroind · July 2012

From about 4-5 month DS slept HORRIBLY. We tried everything, different temperatures, clothes, locations, mattress pad/no mattress pad, lights cereal etc! Nothing worked, he just one day started sleeping well again and never went back. FWIW the cereal probably made it worse, so I stopped for about 2 weeks and then it didn't make a difference. But he was 4 months so I'm sure your baby can handle it better at this age.

lauren1205 · July 2012

maybe all the routine changes that might cause a regression (visits, teething, etc) have formed a habit? We had a short sleep regression after a lot of routine changes. The one thing I read and has seemed to work well has been to really work on putting her to bed drowsy but awake. before we could put her down without her being super drowsy and she would eventually fall asleep. Around this time is when babies develop their sense of object permanence (they know you are missing when you aren't there) and this can cause sleep disruption (you are there when they fall asleep and now not when they get up). since we have made more of an effort to rock her untill she is quite drowsy but still awake, she has fallen asleep much better and also had been much better at soothing herself to sleep at night when she does wake up. Every baby is different, so I don't know if this will work for you, but that's what I can offer?

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