4 month sleep regression

[jadericho]

I'm seriously at the end of my tether. He's almost 5 months and this has been going on since about 3 months and I'm starting to doubt my abilities as a parent. He's literally waking up EVERY HOUR, if not less. I've tried everything. I've tried later bed times, I've tried early bed times though I think we'll be sticking to early bed times because he refuses a to nap from 5pm even if it's just a little one. He's also very reluctant to nap for longer than 20 minutes in the day now which is a new thing though, he previously used to go down for 40 minutes every hour and half to two hours. I don't know what to do :( any advice welcome

Hey OP... no advice because I'm going through the same thing. My DD is 5 months on the 16th.. Although she hasn't been going through the regression for quite as long. But to add to it she's got her bottom front two teeth coming through 😭

All I can do is empathise

Another one here with no advice because I could wrote your post word for word :( it's been two months now and I'm going insane! Up every hour. We've found an earlier bed time at 6 works, not for night but she's now happing for 2 to 3 hours in the afternoon. She wakes up every half hour but we let her fuss for 10 minutes and she's started putting herself back to sleep.
Hope we all come out of it soon 😴

Oh I loved that stage soooo much -.-"
My dd had the same, it went on from 3-7 months, most nights every hour, some nights every 40 minutes on the lucky night it would be every 2 hours.
Don't doubt yourself, you're doing great!
I kept to the same routine for naps every 2 hours, because she still needed them, and the one night it just stopped and went back to the regular 4 hours which was heaven in comparison. Then it just slowly got longer until I weaned her off night feeds, sleeps 12hours solid every night since.
And just powered through knowing it isn't for ever!
You're doing the best!

Oh, I also was still breast feeding. Went to her after maybe a minute or two, but never really left her for long, I thought the quicker I get her settled the quicker I can get into bed and hopefully she'll go for longer....
Did try leaving her multiple times to settle but never did on her own until I weaned.

My main piece of advice is to stop thinking that there is a solution, you just need to ride it out (in my experience anyway)...now dealing with this with second child. It is so tough :( cosleeping helps

Also going through this with DD who is now 18 weeks and has been catnapping during the day since around 8wks, night sleep has been getting progressively worse for the past 3wks or so. I had a similar experience with DS at this age.

This time round I'm literally just surviving until she's c6mo so I can do some sleep training (dreading this btw) as DS improved so so much when I did this with him. I'm trying to encourage 'good sleep habits' where I can, but if I need to co-sleep at 4am or for her afternoon nap then so be it.