How did you all get through the 4 month sleep regression?

[Liam2018]

Baby boy is 17 weeks, and since 13 weeks his routine and sleep has gone out the window, he’s gone from waking once in the night to every hour! He’s also now started with screaming hysterically when waking or trying to put him down to sleep! This is now happening in the day to!

We all got covid around Christmas and are only just overcoming it but it’s been 4 weeks so far of no sleep at all and then trying to deal with no sleep and covid I am at my limit now! He’s lost his routine and trying to get it back is so hard when he screams all the time! My partner has been off over Christmas so it’s been semi bareable because we shared it all but he’s got to go back and I’m so frightened of doing it alone cause my patience is wearing thin.
I’m calling the health visitor on Tuesday but I really don’t know what I can do!

DD1 fuck knows. DD2 I coslept with and there wasn’t a massive noticeable difference. White noise really loud can help.

Teamwork. If you can both feed the baby, then you share the load regardless if who goes out to work (you'll have to for later regressions, illnesses, crap sleep etc when you are both back at work anyway).

If you can't both feed the baby, then the one with useless nipples takes the baby for as long as he can, takes them in the morning, paces them, takes them for walks, whatever to give you as much rest as possible.

It hadn’t been invented when mine were babies. Don’t overthink it OP.

Didn’t honestly notice it as my baby’s sleep was absolutely awful from newborn to 7 months with no discernible improvement to regress from... we had pretty much hourly / 2 hourly wakings the whole time. We survived by combi feeding (breastfeeding and expressed milk bottles until 6 months, breastfeeding and formula after) and sleeping in shifts in the spare room with earplugs. Is sharing the night wakings / feeds something you might be able to do until things improve? I know a lot of mums feel they should cope with the nights alone if they’re on mat leave and their co parent is working but we took the view that both jobs are equally important and demanding and we both needed our rest!