Help.
My son is 20 weeks old and we’ve just come out the other side of the dreaded 4 month sleep regression. Before that, he was sleeping in his crib for 3-4 hours (so wakes at 10pm, 1am, 4.30am, then morning at 7). During the regression, we largely coslept because he was wouldn’t settle in the crib and was fighting sleep.
Now, he’ll fall asleep beautifully either while BFing or being rocked. He’ll go down in his crib when not quite asleep and then drop off while I pat and shush him. Lovely.
But he wakes up after an hour. Every hour. All night 😭
When he wakes, he grumbles to himself and fidgets around. If I feed him back to sleep at this stage, he won’t even open his eyes and settles back to sleep. For an hour. If I just leave him to fidget, he’ll eventually wake up properly and then is awake for 1.5 hours before I can get him to sleep again. He’s perfectly happy during this time - chatty and smiley - but just very awake
We’re going round the bend, I need him to sleeeeeep! Even when co sleeping he’s still waking wanting a feed every 2 hours max.
I have tried...
Offering extra feeds during the day and encouraging longer feeds
Adding sleeping layers/keeping the heating on overnight
Sleeping in a different room in case there’s some noise that’s waking him up in our room (both of us on a mattress on the floor of the nursery!)
I’m considering waking him from his long afternoon nap (which is usually 3-4 hours!!) but I always thought you should never wake a sleeping baby?? Should I wake him after 2 hours?
Please help - why is he waking so much??
What were your babies like after the regression?
If you had similar, how did it get better? Please tell me it got better!!
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Nelbert19 · 13/12/2020 08:33
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