Is this the 4 month sleep regression?

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My son will be 4 months on the 20th (however he is one week overdue so technically 4 months already).

Past week or so, he’s been having really short naps. Like 4 naps that last about 15 minutes. He used to have 3 naps, 2 of them were for an hour and a third for 2 hours!

He would sleep longer if in my arms but even that’s stopping too!

He’s fine at night though so far except last night where he woke up at 12 and then again 1am for feeds like he was starving.

Is this the regression or normal baby behaviour since he still sleep normally at night (so far).

Thank you

It might be but I would think the regression would affect night sleep as well (I know it doesn't for every baby though so you might get away with it!) there is also a big developmental leap at 4 months which massively ruined my DS naps so could be that?

I'm going through the same with my boy. Im putting it down to a growth spurt/sleep regression but I am also unsure how I should be handling it. Id say it is totally normal and just to go with what your baby needs. Thats what Ive been doing so far. I just hope his broken sleeps etc isnt a long term thing. You sound like your doing just fine. :) I am thinking of calling my health visitor for a bit of advice, if i get any useful info ill post it for you.

Mine is 4 months on Saturday and is going through similar - v short naps and the past few nights doing much shorter stretches of sleep and not settling very easily. Also feeding more in the day. He's DS2 and DS1 didn't really do the whole 'sleep regression' thing so I'm new to it. From what I've heard from friends its totally normal, but agree - oh so tiring. Am trying to roll with it as from my experience with DS1 everything is a phase. No advice but sympathy and solidarity!

I’ve gone through the same. Night sleep was bad for about a week and a half and then just improved like magic. Naps have gone to shit though, only last about half an hour. She doesn’t seem tired though so I’m not worrying. We have introduced an earlier bedtime so she no longer stays up with us until we go to bed.

@Nothisispatrick have you found the earlier bedtime helpful? I really can't remember with DS1 when we gave him a proper 'bedtime' rather than just staying with us. I think probably 6-8 months? DS2 still likes to feed more in the evenings, which before this started I thought was reasonable as he did a 7-10 hr stretch afterwards. Now its still a lot of feeding but waking up more!

Yes it helped. The first night we put her down at 8 instead of 9.30/10 the improvement was immediate.

Interesting! I always have in mind the recommendations about them being in the same room as you for sleep until 6 months which is why I've never tried to change it really.

Yes it is. But I’m happy to apply some common sense and other safe sleep practices if it means we all get better sleep. Plus we’re in a flat so she’s actually a few feet away with the door open, not upstairs.