4month old sleep advice please!

[Paquitalaflor]

Morning mumsies, I am looking for some advice about sleep! Not for me, mind you, I am rather good at it. But I seem to have set up some bad habits for my DD. Up until she was 4 months she used to sleep through the night ? from 11pm to 6 or 7am. She will still do that if she goes to bed at 11pm but increasingly she gets tired and literally passes out at 8pm. So that has become her new bedtime and she goes down without any fuss. But she will then wake at intervals throughout the night and only a feed will get her to calm down. I am EBF. She usually wakes at 1.30am, 3.30am and 6.30am. Last night I was lucky and she slept from 8ish until 3.30am, which is a good seven hours.

I just feel like I am missing a trick here. I don?t want to set up a routine when bedtime is 11pm but if that is how she will sleep through the night, should I do that? The wakings aren?t killing me and I am not desperately tired ? I just know she can go for longer without food. And when she does nurse it is so quick and she is right back to sleep again. Should I let her cry and hopefully settle herself? Oh heck, what to do......

It sounds like y have hit the four month growth spurt and sleep regression. Ride it out, she'll be over it in a week or so. 11pm , or even 8 pm, sound quite late for bedtime though. My 4 month old DD has lights out at 7 pm, so did DS at that age.

You're not missing a trick, nor have you set up bad habits. She needs to eat more, so try feeding her more during the day. Her brain's also fizzing with new stuff and that's what's waking her up. As BRS says - ride it out and go with whatever works. If you do a search for sleep regression you will find a million threads all saying the same thing! Does sound like she could do with an earlier bedtime though.

I was lucky, I never had it with mine because they were appalling sleepers anyway - DS woke every hour through the night from birth until he was 11mo.