4 month sleep regression - how did you cope?

[DA1987]

DS is in the throws of the 4 month sleep regression. He’s probably woken about 30 times in the night - mostly just needing to be repositioned (didn’t need a change or feed). We then spend the next ten minutes waiting to see if it sticks or if he’ll wake up and we do it all over again.

What did you do? How did you survive? I feel like all the caffeine in the world won’t cure me today!

Unfortunately I ate way too much sugar and piled on weight I still haven't shifted 5 years later so try and avoid that!

Only time helped for us, fingers crossed it is a short phase for you!

Try and take each night as it comes. This phase may last a while for you but it may not! It lasted only one week for us (not bragging just trying to give some perspective - I like you was in bits when it hit as I heard so many horror stories). Good luck and fingers crossed for you

I basically co slept with him and went back to newborn days ie napping in the day.

I probably found that stage toughest as you don’t get the sympathy as much as when they are newborn!

What helped me psychologically was getting him into a good nap routine in the day with one nap in the pram while I was out for some fresh air.

He’s definitely improved now at 6.5 months - we’re getting our evenings back and even managed to watch two whole films this week without pausing them! In the 12 hours overnight, I would say he wakes 3-4 times with one of those being for a feed before I go to bed at 10.30 ish.

It’s a slow process for us, id love him to cut down the wakenings to 2, but we’ve had a tough run of illness, sleep regression, on & off teething and the heatwaves, so I think we’re doing pretty well.