Anybody not experience 4m sleep regression?

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hi all! Baby is 15 weeks old and always been an amazing sleeper. Currently she goes down at approx 9pm, I dream feed at 11pm and she wakes again at 7-8am. So she’s going sometimes 9 hours, 11 if you class her as fully asleep for the dream feed (which she always is) on her own.

I guess my question is, I’m so so used to my sleep I can’t lie, the idea of a sleep regression and frequent night wakings sounds frickkkken terrible lmao. I’m praying she must already be doing some sort of self soothing/sleep cycle linking surely because of
how long she’s sleeping? Do ALL babies go through the regression!?

Congratulations, you have a unicorn baby. I never noticed the regression with my first because he was up every 15 minutes anyway.

I didn't notice it with either of my dc, they both slept pretty well (for babies), waking 1-2 times, and that didn't change at 4 months.

I am so happy that it's working out for someone. Mine has a different kind of regression each bloody week so it seems. Good luck, and if it does happen, remember it won't last forever x

My dd didn't. I just noticed she was more unsettled napping through the day.

Ours was the same. No 4m regression, but there was a 7m one and it was brutal because we had none of the coping strategies people develop when they have a normal/poor sleepers. We waited far too long to get help from a sleep consultant. When we did, little one took to it immediately because they were simply being helped to return to familiar good habits. So if you get a whiff of regression my advice is to get help asap.

My first DD didn't thankfully. My second DD slept like an absolute angel up to 4 months and lulled me into a false sense of security before her 4 month regression started. It's lasted a few weeks but (fingers crossed) she's still fast asleep this evening and would have woken by now so looks to be a short lived thing.

Me!

My baby boy slept 10-6 from 12 weeks until about five months and started sleeping 8-8 until about 12 months and now he sleeps 7-7.

Mine was/is the same, at 4 months had to do 2 night feeds rather than 1 for a week or two then back to normal. She's 6 months and I've just now noticed 2 teeth popping through and she's been sleeping great still so maybe we will be fine forever!

No mine didn't ... self settled from Day One and went from 7pm to 7am with one very quick night feed (straight back to sleep) until 8 months and then slept right through.

I only had one DC so I guess it was just sheer good luck.

Now I'm the one who doesn't sleep well ... hence mumsnetting at 3.30am .. nothing to do with a baby ... he's 21 now .

No mine didn't, but that was only because they NEVER slept more than 30 minutes at a time

DS never had the regression but was a great sleeper from practically day one. So he kept it consistent.

I didn't and it wasn't a 'thing" when mine were tiny. I've never heard of it and a recent discussion with friends with friends with children of a similar age didn't experience it either. I have also not found any academic literature to prove it exists but I'm happy to be corrected on that.

It wasnt a thing when my childrem were babies either and I remember lookimg t up when I first heard of it and it didnt seem to be a medical thing do I couldnt really understand how babies had changef

I guess my point is how has it become somrthing that you would expect to happen

Noticed she wouldn’t nap as easily in the day but it wasn’t a thing at night at all. People used to say her sleep wouldn’t stay so good but luckily she’s been a dream!

Mine did and it was my first post on here 18 years ago. She'd been an amazing sleeper from 6 wks and then just stopped. It was Very Hard.
It did improve to pre 4m levels, but did take a while.

My second didn't really go through it in the normal way, he could go back to slee by himself and slept the whole night till 5/6 months. Then he started walking up a bit again, not that bad though till the 8-10 regression and that still wasn't awful but I accept bedsharing readily. At 4/5 months though he did this maddening thing of not dropping a nap but needing less sleep so he just wouldn't go down till midnight-2am and had I think 5 naps a day 🤦‍♀️ he was a great napped, just fell asleep on his one for most of them and they were decent naps too.

My first was an actual nightmare horror story of a sleeper, in comparison my son is a dream

Mine was a crap sleeper and continued being a crap sleeper! I didn’t notice any particular change at four months.

At least you've had decent sleep on the way to it? I know you can't store it up, but honestly when you were already getting shit sleep for months and then hit a worse patch, it's bloody tough!

On the plus side it only last a few weeks until back to normal, and the next biggy tends to be around 8/9m.

I’m wondering about this too, my current 4.5 mo is a bit tricky for naps but generally very good overnight and I feel on tenterhooks waiting for it to change

My first lulled me into a false sense of security by being ok until 4 months and then waking every 45 mins for weeks and every 1 or 2 hours for over a year after so I feel like I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop 😅 I’m really hoping this one is a unicorn, I don’t want to go back to sleepless zombie!

Try not to think about it. There is a lot of scaremongering about sleep. If it gets worse, you'll figure it out.
Sleep is developmental, so it can change a lot, not just at 4 months but you might be lucky.

My DC's regression didn't kick in until more like 5months, so there is still time yet 😆
However they were never ever as good of a sleeper as your baby so I suspect you're probably safe. If I could go back in time I would try and stick to good habits throughout the regression (whatever is sustainable long term for you!) but instead I fell into cycle of being the only one to settle them and always on boob etc so the regression has lasted a year and still going!

Not at 4 months but 5.5 months things took a turn.

I had a lucky escape and 4m regression hit us the other way around.
Bang on his 4m birthday he started to sleep all night until 6-6:30 in the morning and not waking up for feeds anymore.

3 DC and have never experienced the 4 month sleep regression. Dc 1 was a unicorn like yours, slept 10 hours ish at night from 10 weeks and just continued to do so. DC 2 and 3 ( twins) woke every 3 hours or so at 10 weeks and didn't see any regression at 4 months , in fact just a continued slow increase in sleep. Infact when dc1 was born in the late 90s I never heard of the 4 month sleep regression and none of the ( large number of) mums I was in a group with ever spoke of anything like that. I didn't even hear of the 4 month sleep regression until I had my twins in 2016.

No, my son didn't. He slept through from 12 weeks and it's been like that ever since. We kept expecting it to change but it never did.