Please tell me this regression ends!

[FTMSyd]

Hi mums and dads, FTM here, going crazy with the 4th month regression..... She doesn't want to nap in the day and night time ia horrible, takes about 4 hours to put her down, aftwr i give up hubby takes over, she literally screams and doses off to sleep until she cant scream anymore.... I feel for her but since last 4 nights that's the only way she's sleeping, I'm tired and exhausted! She was such a good sleeper and woyld wake up only once at night for a feed and now that's almost 5-6 times, I've lost count, she goes back to sleep straight after the night feeds, but it's almost every 90-120 minutes and I'm going crazy now. Hardly sleeping..... We first thought may be she's teething too as she has all the signs but it's been 2 weeks and no teeth has come through, she is not crying in pain or anything but just wanta to be awake all thw time.
We went to Karitane and her sleep was so prefect and now it's like I'm doinv whatever i can to get her to sleep, evwn feed to sleep or sometimes co sleep.... I'm just wondering when should i start pitting her down drowsy but awake again as that's how she slept before, but now it's only while feeding or rocking and honestly I'm finding it too much to rock a 7 kg baby for more than an hour..... How are you dealing with this? I'm at a breaking point now and crying almoat every day, mostly because she was such a great sleeper and it's all so upside down now.....

I'd forget all about sleep training techniques for now if you can OP. I'd keep her with you until it's time to go to bed. She will sleep once she's through this, despite what some sleep trainers will tell you about "bad habits".

Now she's more aware in the day, could she be making up her calories more at night?

It's also, really, really good that she goes straight to sleep after a feed. If she's BF, have you tried putting her in bed with you? If she's ff could you and DH do half the night feeds each?

Have you read the No Cry Sleep Solution too? It might help you to find your way through this

3 obvious things that you may already have tried, but don't mention, so just in case...

1. daytime napping, manage it well and it benefits night. Do you look out for tired signals? (Behaviour becomes irritable, red eyes or eyebrows area, rubbing eyes, arching back if overtired). Learn your baby's cues.

2. sleep hygiene. Blackout blinds, whitenoise on phone etc. Different nap cues to night if needed (different sleep bag or nap in Moses basket not night crib?)

3. calories! At this point not far off solids. Check she's eating enough during the day for her weight and fix. She'll just wake up to feed more if she's not getting enough. If FF, check Oz per kg of weight for a 24hr period. If bf, offer more during day etc. Whatever the route you need to ensure her wake ups aren't a totally healthy signal that she needs food for an upcoming growth spurt etc.

Forgot to say, "she goes back to sleep straight after the night feeds, but it's almost every 90-120 minutes" that's why I mentioned item 3 above.

It might be that she's started to become a "snacker" (try distraction for 15 min -30 min so she'll take a bit more milk at feed) or that she's genuinely not had enough during day.

I suspect that's your problem just going on the information you posted tbh.