What the hell is my baby doing!!????

[Poppety]

Morning everyone!
Can anyone shed any light on what the hell my 15 week old baby is doing to cause her to wake every 2 hours at night from 11pm when she was previously either sleeping through or just waking once???
Im so bloody tired and then I have to be up at 6am with my 3 year old, who will occasionally let me doze on the sofa while cbeebies babysits!
My baby has never been an amazing daytime sleeper, only cat naps for 20 minutes and needs to either bed fed, rocked, bounced etc to sleep. At night time she was doing 7.30 to 9am with one feed!!!
She gets ready for bed, I feed her (EBF) and then rock her to sleep before putting her to bed. (She has NEVER self settled, not once, I've given up trying)
She's usually down by 8pm, (if we try earlier it takes longer as she messes about)
Then she wakes around 11.30pm, 2am, 4am and 6am
I've tried soothing by rubbing her tummy, pacing around, cuddles etc but she just starts sucking her fist, so I feed her and she has a lovely 10 minute feed each time and goes back off without a problem.
So is she genuinely hungry? Or is it a habit now?
Unless she's tired or in a dark room her day feeds have become short and faffy, my LC said she's at the distractible age where she'd rather look around than feed effectively, which is fine, but her weight gain has slowed and she's dropping a bit on the centile chart. She's happy in the day and can go 2-3 hours between feeds.
Or is it this sleep regression I keep hearing about and nothing to do with her appetite?
She's desperate to roll over and is almost there so is she practicing this in the night and getting frustrated?
So many questions :(
She sleeps in a toddle pod (always has) see photo

Sorry for the lengthy ramble

Natalie xx

[17leftfeet]

4 month sleep regression

This too will pass

[Poppety]

When!!??? When when when!!!!

[Flisspaps]

About a week before the next one

[Poppety]

Dear god - I'm currently stood up wandering around to stop me falling asleep on the sofa :(
She's getting her jabs on weds so no doubt that'll bugger things up aswell!

[BlinkAndMiss]

I agree - 4 month sleep regression, unfortunately. It's really important to stick to your routine now, it's during regressions that it's tempting to do things that are not sustainable in the long term. Casting my mind back, I ended up feeding my DS about 4 times a night for a week or so but then he went back to sleeping through (he was formula fed which might make a difference, I did replace the milk for water once he was only waking up for an ounce). Other things that might be exacerbating the wake ups might be teeth, if there's a lot of fist chewing it could be the teeth moving around under the gums and causing irritation. Try some relief and then settling again.

Check that she's still comfortable sleeping in the pod, my DS went from being very settled to doing laps of his cot all night. Once I moved the snug out of the way he just moved about without waking up.

It will pass, it might take a few weeks but she will go back to sleeping through eventually :).

[minipie]

She's extremely cute if that helps at all?

[Poppety]

An thanks minipie!! She is beautiful! And such a little diva!
She's only ever slept in the pod so I don't know what sleep would be like without it?!
I try to settle her other ways it she just starts sucking her fist and then has a pretty good feed each time!?
Do they say that frequent night wakings can be a sign of hunger and the start of weaning?

[petitdonkey]

I agree that she may have outgrown the pod thingy (never seen one of those but my children are ancient now!!) - mine at 4 months started moving about a lot more.

Don't let anyone tell you that weaning will make a jot of difference to sleep - you just have 4-6 weeks to get through and she will settle back down again (in my experience)

Sympathies though

[Poppety]

She was in the smaller pod and we recently upgraded to the bigger one which goes up to over a year old, there's pics on the website of much older kids curled up sleeping on them, I agree for now she's probably finding it frustrating as she can't move but we don't have a cot mattress and if we buy one and she can't sleep without the pod then it's a waste of money!

[Jonkastique]

Hi i'm new Mumsnetter.

I have a 19 week little girl who is EBF. Until 3-4 weeks ago, she slept BRILLIANTLY. From 8 pm until 8 am without waking.

Now she won't go down until 9 pm, wakes at midnight/ 1 am, then 3/4 am, then sleeps until 8 am. I don't have any other kids but i run my own business so need to work during the day.Lately all i can think of during the day is sleeping!

I have heard elsewhere of the 4 month regression, it seems to be a thing. I would like it to pass please!

She is a dinky baby so still sleeps in moses basket.This morning at 4 am i took her in to bed with me (partner works away during week) and she slept until 8 am. I noticed that she likes to spread her arms way out...she can't do that in basket so maybe is uncomfortable, hence waking up? Am going to try in her cot tonight, wish me luck!