4.5 month old waking every 1 1/2 hours

[lizzie001]

Does anyone have any ideas how I can solve this. My 4 month old has always woken in the night but I finally got her to sleep between 3 to 4 hours at a time. However for the past 2 weeks she has been sleeping for the first 3 or 4 hours then waking every 1 1/2 hour. I BF her then put her back in her cot and she goes back to sleep but wakes up again about 1 hour later so I do the same. This goes on between 01.00 and 05.00.
Should I let her cry out some of the wakenings or by feeding her each time I am encouraging her to wake up.
She goes to bed at 9.00 and goes down really well and straight off to sleep.
Any advised greatly received as getting a bit exhausted.
thanks guys

it is typical growth spurt time, so the best thing to do is feed her and give her the milk and comfort she needs and allow your milk suply to catch up with her demands

hi lizzie001

i agree with the others about the growth spurt. i had something pretty similar at this time and it went on for weeks: ds had been sleeeping for 3 or 4 hours at a stretch and then started waking and waking and waking every couple of hours for breastfeeds; it really takes it out of you so do try and get some rest whenever you can even if it's just a quick nap (my ds didn't sleep much in the day either, which didn't help!)

just feed, feed, feed: i figured he wasn't waking for the fun of it and he had proper feeds when he did wake, not just 'non-nutritive suckling' so the sooner i got up and fed him the sooner i would be back in bed again, rather than lying there listening to him cry and get really upset.

it's tough - i got to the stage where i dreaded bedtime - but remember the mantra: this too will pass.

ps check out my old thread 'help - 4mo now sleeping worse than newborn' - lots of useful advice from fellow sufferers!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/sleep/887221-help-4mo-now-sleeping-worse-than-newborn

4 month sleep regression is very common.

Here and here.

interesting links angeldog - we are now going through the 8-9 month sleep regression!

Thank you everyone. Camflower I have read your link, it seems to be a normal 19 week thing. Its just so difficult to know how to deal with it. At the moment I am just feeding and putting her back in her cot and doing it every 11/2 hours. During the day she is feeding about every 3 hours which I think is a good amount and napping really well with no problems in getting her off.
Thank you everyone I'll hang on in there and keep thinking that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.