4m sleep regression, teething or something else???

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My EBF DD slept through the night from about 5 weeks. "We are so lucky" we told ourselves as friends complained about sleep deprivation.

She is 19 weeks. For the past 4 weeks she has woken every night between 1 and 5 times between midnight and 7 am. I feel like crying. I have epilepsy that is sensitive to sleep disturbance so god knows what I am building up to there.

I have rescued my copy of the No Cry Sleep solution which I prematurely leant to a friend. I am not very optimistic though, as DD can go to sleep from drowsy without feeding or rocking and achieving that seems to be the premise of the book. She just seems to want or need my attention a good chunk of the time at night! It is also really hard to get her to nap. Really hard.

She has a few lumps on her gums and is gnawing or drooling like mad so that may be a factor.

So... will those heady days of 10 hour sleeps come back any time soon? Or is this it for a while?

Hi there. No real advice I'm afraid but my ds did this for a few weeks and it is exhausting. Sadly he's was never a good sleeper before so was only a little worse for me. Now (17 weeks) he's waking once for a feed at about 12/1 but sleeping well other than that. Naps are still an ongoing battle and always have been. Grrr! Or Perhaps its Devine retribution for all those long blissful nights of uninterrupted sleep!! Ha. Good luck. Hope someone comes along with a more helpful post soon. But as the mn saying goes...."this too will pass!!"

Sounds like teething to me. Have you tried calpol? In my case the sleeping through returns once that teething has stopped pushing but only until the next one....

We do give her Calpol but I don't always get the timing right - will try tonight, thanks.

What are people's thoughts on bedtimes at this age? DD settles quickly and sleeps better if I put her down at 10 - but I keep reading I should be trying for 7 or 8.

Beckie you are right - I do wonder if this is my comeuppance for basking in the glory of weeks of uninterrupted sleep.

My ds is slightly younger but I settle him at about 7.30. That's because it fits in with us and seems to work......not because the book says. I think the reason they say this is to get them used to early bed times for when they get older?! Or perhaps it's so they get enough sleep?! I say do what works for you as they will eventually naturally need to go to bed earlier as they become more active. Hopefully anyway.

Mine are both in bed at 7pm ish