At our wit's end!

[PollyP0429]

Hi people, could really do with some sound advice and success stories. LO is 4 months old, give or takea few days, and the sleep problems just keep on coming.

She has always been a serial cat napper, and won't sleep during the day at all if not on someone's chest. I would love to know how people got decent length naps into their day and if they managed this in the cot/crib/basket. This has been an issue since day 1 but I used to be able to feed to sleep - this is nearly impossible with her new curiousness.

Which leads us into bedtime. At 6 weeks we started her routine, feed, bath, dressed and top up feed to sleep. It started working within a few days with 1 or 2 night feeds and awake at half 6ish. We then had to move her to the cot in her own room because she kept getting her feet caught when rolling onto her side. This went well, asleep by 8 with 1 night feed. The last week she's refused to feed to sleep at all and takes a good hour or more to attempt to get to sleep. We've tried dummies with sporadic success.

Anyhelp would be appreciated

Welcome to the 4 month sleep regression! There's a support thread for sufferers and survivors in sleep, should be near the top as a very active thread!

It will pass, its very well documented, you're not alone I think most would say just do what it takes to get through it.

Does she sleep when out in the pushchair?

Our dd wouldnt sleep when just put down in cot, so took her to for every nap for a couple of weeks, with a large muslin over the carrycot. She would fall asleep and stay asleep when brought home. Now can just rock the pram along the hall a lot of the time.

Still hit and miss, sometimes she does end up napping on one of us, usually after her first 30min and sometimes she won't sleep but better than before,

*took her out not took her to

Not really little she sleeps no better than in our arms. My next port of call is a routine for each nap.

Its the lack of naps that is killing us, she gets so overtired. And its been like this for weeks now :(

Have you tried a sling/carrier in the daytime? At least that way your arms get a break and you can do stuff (if you want). I have a moby wrap and an ergo baby and like both. DD will happily nap in them, our arms, or buggy but not in cot. I also find white noise helpful for keeping daytime naps going (unless out in buggy). She doesn't sleep well at night so I'm not really best placed to give advice though!