What is this? Growth spurt, sleep regression, both or something else?

[mamaintraining]

Hi, a bit lengthy but really looking for some advice here

My DD has been an absolute nightmare for the past 3-4 nights. She's been a good sleeper so far, with around 3-5 wake ups per night (8-8), but for these past nights I've been literally getting up every 30-40mins. Sometimes she just wants her dummy back in, others to be picked up as she won't stop crying.
When I do pick her up she falls back asleep straight away but she's moving constantly (and I mean non-stop) - not getting-comfy kinda moving but throwing herself from side to side on me. She's also been arching her back and really stretching her arms and legs loads during the day and the best way I can describe it is as if her bones were aching? That's how it looks like when she stretches

We have a sleep consultant booked for Monday coming up so if it is regression I'm hoping to get it sorted anyway, but does this maybe sound like growth spurt? She has 7oz 4x a day, nothing at night for months now and doesn't seem hungrier. She's also very clingy and irritable during the day as opposed to my normally happy baby

Do I just ride it out or is there anything I can do about it?

Any advice/comments welcome

How old is she OP? It’s hard to know if it’s a sleep regression without knowing her age

If you look at the Wonder Weeks App, that should tell you if it’s a regression or leap.

How much does she weigh too? Before 6 months ff babies need roughly 2.5 floz per pound in weight. If you use that equation, is she getting enough milk?

How to get your baby to sleep and stay asleep should help too

Thanks for that jilted; I'd half blurrily wondered if my 4.5 mo old is finding daily life a bit much (now rolling but getting frustrated he can crawl!) and if more daytime slinging might help night time waking. A lot of whinging, shouting and whining in the day, Going to give it a go.

Let us know how you get on

@JiltedJohnsJulie she will be 5 months next Friday. We recently had a GP appointment and her milk intake is fine and she's tracking on 75th percentile 😅
Yesterday night was better with only 8 wakings (how horrible does this sound lol), I've taken her out for long walk in the morning and afternoon today in hope for more sleep with so much fresh air so fingers crossed it worked 😄

It’s good that’s shes tracking her weight centile. If it’s just a few nights that this has been going on for, could she be teething or does she have a temperature?

I know that my first definitely had growing pains but it was more around the time he was learning to run and then later jumping etc. He could tell me his legs hurt. So it's possible it's a growth spurt? Or teeth?

We actually had a better night, 3 wakes from 7-4 till it went wrong around 5 (wind wakes him repeatedly so he kept dozing and waking to burp then wanting more till 7 - I should have done a really good wind session around 4 but just dozed off.) doing stints if 3 hours is more manageable!

I think I assumed after the last leap he'd be happier and more content but what happened is that he learnt to roll and did so repeatedly the first 'sunny' day and then got repeatedly very upset he couldn't crawl. I actually think he's now more aware and so more easily upset.