Is this the dreaded 4 month sleep regression

[ChinChilly]

My 16 week old little girl has gone from being a wonderful night sleeper doing a good 10-11 hour stretch with one or two stirs to waking every hour and waking for the day earlier and earlier every day. It doesn’t take long for her to go back to sleep during the night and I don’t get her out of the cot nor have I started up the night feeds again unless she is really upset and needs one. I feel like this is worse than the initial newborn days I’m not even getting an hours stretch of sleep at a time.

She’s never been a great daytime sleeper I can never get her to independently sleep in Moses basket or her next to me cot even if I transfer her asleep she just wakes 15 mins later so sleeping when the baby sleeps doesn’t happen.

Does this sound like the 4 month sleep regression? How long does it last? If so any tips other than just ride it out?

Definitely sounds like sleep regression.. no tips can get you through it you just have to ride it out, it can last for up to a month but then they go back to how they was or sleep even better or the rare cases they sleep even worse 🤦🏼‍♀️

@MissM94 Yikes, don’t like the sound of even worse sleep 🫣 we had an amazing night the night before last night 8-6:45 with 2 wake ups one self settling and then last night was a shit show 😂

Sounds like it.

The worst of it for us was maybe a month with both children, but we settled into a new normal, which was worse than pre regression sleep, if I'm honest.

This my eldest, she slept for 3 hours stretches as a newborn, 8 hour stretches by 3 months, regression was roughly hourly, then settle down to a pattern of anywhere from 2 to 5 hours (which later for a year or so), so better than newborn, worse than 3 months.

My second slept two hourly as a newborn, going to 3 to 5 hour stretches by 3 months, regression was every hour, settled down to 2 hourly again, for regressing between 6 to 18 months, with wake up every 30-90 minutes for that period.

It's very normal for the regression sleep to be worse than newborn asleep sadly, and it'll probably carry on going up and down for the next few years. Newborns are introduction to sleep deprivation rather than the pinnacle of it, in my experience.

Some people do get lucky there and their children sleep goes back fine after it.

@Somuchgoo ouch! I said to OH I think I need to just accept sleep is going to be hit and miss for a few years…we were spoilt with her sleep as a newborn she only ever woke up once over night for a feed then slept through regularly from about 7 weeks until a few weeks ago that is 😂

Sounds like our baby.

He was our first and we were smug that he slept relatively well (one or two wakes) for the first few months then BAM the 4mo regression hit. He's now 8mo and it's rare that he will sleep over 2 hours in one stretch.

I am exhausted as I do all the night wakes (feeding back to sleep is the quickest method) but my body and mind are sort of used to it, plus we co-sleep.