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January 2016 Moms
cali1710
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4 month sleep regression
cali1710
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has anyone started going through this with your current little one or another child? My girl is 3.5 months and has started sleeping pretty terribly. Shes soo hard to go down suddenly, wakes up a few times after putting her down, waking early. Last night she had a crying fit for an hour and we had no idea what was wrong. Thought maybe it was gas so we gave her gripe water, nothing worked. So my guess is this sleep regression may have started early. Or maybe its a phase?
Re: 4 month sleep regression
Well the last 2 nights she has woken 3-4 times crying and crying. I've had to feed her at least once during the night to soothe her, which I haven't done since she was like 7 weeks old. She also has had a terrible cold and I'm sure is having trouble breathing normally through the night. I'm wondering... is it the sleep regression or the cold? Time will tell.........
She is 16 weeks... 4 months next Monday.
I don't want it to last..
Not recently. She's giving us a hard time about going to bed at midnight, occasionally refusing/fussing until around 2 am. Up from 4-5, then up again at 530. Wakes up for the day at 730. Not cool.
The upside to this though is, he's finally kicking his last MOTN feeding. He hasn't had a bottle during the night for the past 3 nights in a row. So I think we are making progress with getting him to sleep longer stretches. We were only getting 3-4, sometimes a 5 hour stretch. Now, we are consistently getting 5-6 hour stretches, and even when he does wake up that first time, he is able to go back down within 10-15 minutes, without needing to eat. We've had to go into his room and soothe him 2-3 times within that 10-15, but I'll take that, over a 40-45 minute feeding session.
I am am worried that she is going to get used to eating at night, and I really do not want that!
@kimber308 I read that too. I guess we have to reteach them how to go to sleep. I don't know where else to start. Is it ok to start sleep training at 4 months? I feel shes too young for the cry it our method. I read they don't learn to self sooth until between 4-6 months ... I read the 4 month sleep regression doesnt effect some babies. Lucky parents.
@Meg920 I'm in the same boat. I don't want her to get used to food during the night nor do I want her to need that to fall asleep. She has always had nights where shes woken up around 3/4 for food but that was slowly going away. She was having more and more 10-12 hours sleep nights.
Hey @cali1710 the good news (for me) is that LO slept through the night last night 6:45-6:00 AM. Ah... it felt so good! Now I'm wondering if this is four month sleep regression or a leap? I guess tonight and the rest of the week will tell. I'm wondering if the good sleep will come and go or just always be terrible from there on out. As for sleep training, I know it says that they won't learn to self soothe until 4-6 months, but we started sleep training shortly after 3 months. It only took a few nights and now we just put her down at night and leave the room - I do feel it's taught her to self soothe and she is able to do so now, so when she wakes up at night she's able to put herself back to sleep (except during this rough patch). I will say, though, the first night was 7-10 minutes of tears, and each night was less from there on out. I don't think I would have done it if it was worse. I feel, though, as a parent, it's like, "what do I know?" because everything is always changing.
As far as sleep training goes, my LO had it tough because she doesn't take a pacifier. When we started she just would be in her crib until she fell asleep. Some crying and flailing, then it turned into looking around and making noises with an occasional cry. She has had this thing, though, where she wakes up an hour after we put her down and we don't go to her. We just let her practice soothing herself - she uses her fingers and gives a couple yelps/noises/flails, and then will fall back asleep. I think it's good practice for if she does wake up at night but really doesn't need me. However, she usually doesn't wake up at night, so I didn't have to deal with that. But the couple of nights she did wake up this week, I felt that she really did need something and was going through something, so I got up and soothed/fed her if she needed it. I don't know what I'll do if it continues.
Once we're all finally out, she's up again between 1-3 crying. Just to get some sleep I bring her into bed with me and let her side nurse until she falls back asleep. I havent done that since before i went back to work. Once we are cuddling though, she's out.
Whats the difference between a leap and regression?
Leaps are linked to the development of your baby, which could include sleep habits, where as the regression is associated with sleep behaviors and patterns only.