Please tell me there is an end to this!! DS started early, more like 'just over 3 months sleep regression', and is still waking more or less every 2 hours in the night. This has been going on for about 6 weeks! Some nights are better than others and he does generally do 3/4 hours at first but after that it's every couple of hours, sometimes less, then usually up for the day at 7am. He hardly naps either, though again some days are better than others. He sprouted 2 teeth a couple of weeks ago and is still dribbly and chewing on his fingers but no sign of any more.
I read somewhere else on here that how they first fall asleep at night impacts on the rest of the night wakings. Well, I put him down sleepy but awake, hover for a bit then leave him to self settle and he does. But he doesn't do it in the night! ( actually a couple of times he has ) He feeds to sleep during the night, but not any other times. For naps he is either in the car, swing or bouncy chair or sometimes self settles in his carry cot.
Is there anything I can do?! Or does it normally last this long and I just have to be patient? My HV suggested gradually starting on baby rice at 20 weeks ( he's 19 weeks now ) but I can't see how that will help his sleep? DP seems set on how he is going to magically sleep through when he starts solids!
Give me hope please!!
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If your baby had 4 month sleep regression, how long did it last?
Cydonia · 07/10/2012 21:11
Hate to say it but the whole screechyness lasted about 6 weeks 
but it did improve quite quickly and her daytime sleep got much easier too. Hang on in there, it will be over soon x
I'm so sorry to say this but DD slept 12 hours EVERY single night since she was a few weeks old (with 1 dreamfeed in the middle, but never actually woke up).
Enter 4 month sleep regression (at around 3 1/2 months) and she started waking up multiple times during the night. She's almost 7 months and now wakes up almost every single sleep cycle 
I'm comforting myself thinking at least it will merge with the 9 month sleep regression and hopefully be over then.
Hope it gets better for you soon!
Warning - depressing news alert.
4 month sleep regression started for us in January. Really bad until the end of August. (so just linked seamlessly with the 9 month regression).
At 12 months DS was sleeping okish (just a couple of wake ups). Now at 13 months he had a couple of wakeups plus a very early start (5.30am )
Don"t want to depress you but to be honest I wish I'd known the the 4 month sleep regression would last longer than a couple of weeks. It would have helped me to accept the bad sleeping and not go crazy thinking about it.
DS was an excellent sleeper until the 4 month regression. I am still waiting for him to come out the other side. He will be two years old at the end of the month.
Out of interest, do you feed every time they wake? DS was into a pattern of a 10pm dreamfeed plus waking around 2.30/3.00am for a feed but now at nearly 4 months he's up and down most of the night. I just feed him as the quickest way to get him back to sleep (and to avoid waking my DD), but should I try and settle him without a feed if it's only been an hour or two? Will it help him self settle? He goes down awake at bedtime so I know he can do it. I am dead on my feet here
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Lol, my DD slept through at 12 weeks.
That's why I got pregnant again so quickly.
DS is PAYBACK TIME for my babysleepingsmugness the first time round.
I deserve it.
verity
I think I deserve a sleeping baby next time around. I've already told DH that these magical babies exist but he doesn't quite believe me 
TITC I BF almost every time DS wakes. Though usually less than 1 minute and he is gradually getting better and waking less. He's even gone through the night a couple of times so I know he is capable of doing it. I just can't face withholding BF and facing the crying.
On a good night DS wakes, cries, I BF him briefly, put him back in his cot so he falls asleep in his cot and I'm back in bed in less than 10 minutes. On a bad night I'm up for 2 hours rocks in corner
He only started dropping the night feeds from around 11 months though. It didn't cross my mind to try it before 7 months and then we had a really hot summer here so I didn't want to deprive him of a drink.
Have you tried co-sleeping? I was really against the idea but at 8 months gave in (too shattered) and so DS went to sleep in his cot but at some point in the night when I cracked I'd bring him in with me. Even if I didn't sleep much, I was lying down which surprisingly really helped.
Then at 11 months I found the energy to decide that he was staying in his cot all night every night and he has been for the last 2 months until 5.30am anyway
I wouldnt' have found that energy without the co-sleeping though.
Good luck!
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