Is this the 4 month sleep regression with knobs on?

[Chelly71]

I'm sure it is, I've read so much about it but my 18 week dd is barely asleep at night! Example, bed at 7pm wakes up at 10pm, settled back by 10.30pm, wakes at 12 settled by 12.30 wakes at 2 settled by 3, fully awake at 4am until 5.30am, wakes at 6.15am for the day.

She is ebf and has about 3,4 hours sleep in the day across 3 naps with a good lunchtime sleep. I have a toddler as well so just shattered. I think I remember ds going through this but he had a dummy and I spent many nights popping it in again and again. Dd won't take a dummy and whilst I'm sure i should hush her back to sleep my brain just says boob every time she wakes. Sometimes she feeds other times just a quick comfort and sleep again. She feeds well in the day.

She is also rubbing her face a lot in her sleep, so much so I've had to pop the integral mitts over her hands from the sleep suit.

I guess I want to know if the regression can really be this bad and I just wait it out or should I be trying a different tactic? When she comes out the other side will she not learn to self settle because I give her the boob every time?

Any reassurance or positive tales appreciated before I seriously lose the plot. Thanks

i think we're going through the same thing. DD is 17 weeks old and up until a week ago was going down at 7pm, wakng for a feed at 3.30am and then going through until 7am.

last night she was waking every few hours and like you ive got a toddler and the lack of sleep is agony!

I had a look on the Wonder Weeks website and it does seem like classic sleep regression.

Sounds like the regression to me. I'm not sure there's much you can do other than ride it out. It's good that she is napping as my dd lost the ability to do both at that stage!

It will pass. I think you just have to do what works for now, and deal with any bad sleep habits as she comes out of it. We night weaned at 6-7 months and that's when things started to even out again. I think we had a particularly bad time as she was also teething and her sleep was bad from 4-7 months, although she's a fab sleeper now so I don't care!

So, no advice from me, just reassurance that it will get better.

Thanks both... We shall repeat in our sleep 'this too shall pass' for the next few weeks.....

Omg I'm jealous this sounds like a 'good night' for my 20 week old dd she is just a non sleeper I have a 2 year old do shattered is not the word!

Yup, sounds like my nights at the moment. The other night she woke up every 45 mins! That was a bit of a killer. She also decided that she would only nap in my arms and even then I have had to work really hard to get decent ones out of her.

So far this has been going on for about 3-4 weeks (she is 4 1/2 months) so I am hoping I will begin seeing the other side of it soon or I might lose the plot completly as I am back at work next week.

On the bight side at least she is my only dc so don't have to worry about anyone else. I sometimes wonder how people with more then one child manage to stay even a little bit sane :)

It has been worse, I've had the 45 min nights for the last 2 weeks. Last night I managed to thwart the wake in the night slot by co sleeping at 5 am and dd slept until 7. Not that I did.... Was never good at this co sleeping lark!

I co slept with her for a bit (she has a bedside cot but I brought her the 1.5 feet into our bed) so I could feed her without sitting up but rather annoyingly she then got terrible wind and needed to be sat up and burped before she would settle anyway. So she has been returned to the bedside cot as, like you, I find I get better quality sleep when she isn't right next to me.

She decided that she would only have an hour and a half of naps today (she usually has around 3 hours!) so I am now waiting to see if that makes her night sleeping better or worse. She has gone to bed fine and woken up once so far so fingers crossed I am not going to get a mega melt-down