Wonder Week leap 4/4-month sleep regression

[MissABW]

Hi everyone!

I’d love some sleep advice! I have a 4-month old: we had settled into a pattern of him being asleep around 10.30pm to 6.30am with two feeds, sometimes going 3 hours between feeds. Then around week 13 he was waking a bit more frequently and I assumed it was the 4-month regression as I could see we were in leap 4 on my wonder weeks app. However when we hit spot on 4 months, the last 3 nights have been so so tough with him waking sometimes hourly! So I feel this is the regression! However my WW app says I’m now through leap 4.

Does anyone understand how wonder week leap 4 ties in with the 4-month sleep regression? I thought they were the same but it seems not.

Thank you!

Wonder weeks is quite often out time wise. Their initial study only had about 15 babies in it I think so it’s not that reliable.

I think all babies have their leaps / regressions at slightly different times, just some times are more common than others.

You’ve got my full sympathy though, the 4(ish) month one was definitely the hardest for us! DD woke every 45 minutes and I thought I was going to die, we survived it though!

Hi there! The 4 month sleep regression happens when babies go from 2 stage sleep to 4 stage sleep which happens around 4 months. It can affect some babies sleep and others it doesn't.
For me, I found wonder weeks interesting to see the skills etc but every baby is so different. I don't refer to it very often now.

Hi, completely feel your pain right now, my lo went though the 4 month sleep regression and oh my it was hard work!
She would too wake almost every hour from about 1am and it felt like it was never going to end (I really struggled with it) however it will pass, there isn't really much you can do really apart from just take each night as it comes.
I think our lo went through it for about a week or so.
I used the wonder weeks app aswell but only to give me a guide as such as to when she was roughly going through it but I used it more to read up on what the leap was about etc xx

Thank you all for your replies!

@Cr17 I’m happy to hear your experience was only a few days! My worry is that it’ll last weeks which feels unmanageable! Is your baby able to self soothe? I’m feeding mine to sleep so sorry that this will mean it’ll be weeks rather than days :(

@SamanthaVimes How long did the regression last for your baby and is yours able to self soothe?

Sorry to say it lasted till about 6 months. Then we had 2 hourly wakes with the odd 3 hours. She very occasionally sleeps through now at 19 months but usually only wakes once or twice which is much more manageable.

She never got the hang of self soothing but we haven’t really tried to force it as she would get so biblically upset if we tried it was obvious she wasn’t going to calm down without help (and it’s not like we could sleep through the noise anyway)

She’s an absolute angel during the day though so I guess you win some you lose some!

My LO is coming up to 7 months now, but his regression started at 12 weeks on the dot, and lasted roughly 3 months. You think you won't survive, you will! Think of it a bit like learning to swim... You're earning your parenting badges! You might feel like you're drowning for a bit, but your brain does learn to somehow cope. I even started dreaming in between those hourly wake ups! Which shows I was managing to get into a deep sleep very quickly.

I also feed to sleep too, not always, but most of the time. It's the quickest way at night! My son can self soothe sometimes, and that's good enough for me. If he needs help most of the time, so be it, that's what I'm here for