My DD is 6 months old and has been a pretty awful sleeper since the 4 month regression, which in her case seemed to start at more like 3 months.
There doesn't seem to be a particular rhyme or reason to the wakings. A good night might only see 2 or 3 between midnight and morning, a bad night might involve multiple interruptions to the early part of the evening and hourly wake ups thereafter. In desperation the other night I put her in the bouncy chair (a basic, old school model) on the floor of our bedroom and miraculously she fell back to sleep for 3 more hours. I have since repeated this a few more times with similar success. There is something about being in the chair that seems to keep her asleep when she just can't / won't stay that way in her cot.
I have since learned that sleeping in chairs is frowned upon, although I haven't managed to find any properly sourced articles explaining why. Is anyone able to link to anything?
In your opinions, why can she sleep longer in the chair than in the cot? Is it simply the change of environment? (She always starts the night in the cot without fail) Is it being upright? The gentle bouncing movement? If either of those, is there anything safer I can do to get the benefit of the longer sleep without the risk? (Assuming that there are in fact risks to bouncy chair sleeping...) Or what else can I change to make her not need the elevation / movement? Given that I am waking up at least twice between going to bed and starting the day, I cannot hack the day beginning at any time that begins with a 4 or a 5 and currently the chair seems the only way to avoid that. I am gutted that what I hoped was a magic solution is potentially not very safe :(