Share your 4 month old routines with me

[monkeyblonde]

I know too well about the 4 month sleep regression, but just wondered if anyone on here wanted to share their current routine/pattern with me. Our DS2 feeds every 1.5/2 hours day and night (FF in day, BF at night) but never finishes a bottle during the day . I make up 180 ml, lucky if he takes 90 from each bottle and he should be on 210!

Would love to hear how others are getting on, my DS was born early Feb 2014.

DS is 17weeks. Is it feeding and sleeping pattern you were looking for?

DS is ebf - he feeds at 7am, 10:30, 2pm, 5pm & 6:30 after bath. He is in bed asleep at 7pm.

Don't want to jinx it by writing it down but we have a two types of night activities:
Good night : he sleeps through til 4am, has bf, back to sleep until 6ish when I bring him into our bed and we dose until 7am
Not so good night : wakes at 10pm, 1am, 3am, 5am... Sometimes I can settle him back without feeding and sometimes I have to bf. I will make sure he has at least 2 bf in the night as this seems be right for him at the moment.

Naps during the day are usually 45min/1hr at 9am-ish and lunchtime for a good hour. Sometimes he needs a top up pm nap but we keep him awake from 5pm onwards.

We're moving towards introducing formula bottles and he will take around 125ml - like you I worry how he will get up to his 'required' amount but trust that we will get there eventually as I'm phasing out bf over the next month or so.
DS has only ever taken one breast for a feed and has gained weight very well so we will work on the formula thing at his pace too!

My DS was born 15th Feb 2014 so is just over 4 months. He is now ff and takes about 7 oz every 3 hours in the day and has 5 feeds in total. He's really good at night going to sleep at about 7 pm and sleeping til about 6 am ish although sometimes he wakes earlier. However, day time naps are a struggle! He has a 30 min nap at about 8 am ish then another nap of an hour or so around lunchtime and then a further 30 mins in the afternoon. He still seems tired after the short naps but I can't seem to get him to go any longer!

He won't fall asleep in his pram if we're out walking, he just stares at everything and if he naps in the car he wakes as soon as the car stops! So I feel pretty tied to the house!

DC2 is just 4 months and breastfed.

Our days vary a little depending on lengths of naps. Normal naps are 45 minutes on the dot

Generally something like this:
feed in bed at 6am
up about 7am
nap about 8am
feed 9ish
nap about 10/10.30am
feed 11-11.30ish
nap about 12.30
feed 1.30
nap about 3
feed about 4
nap about 5 (awake by 5.30)
half a feed (one side) about 6, bath at 6.30, other half feed at 7pm
into bed by 7.30
night feeds around 10.30pm and 3/3.30am

So feeds and sleeps on demand really, but normally 8 feeds a day and 5x 45 minute naps (thought the last nap might only be 15 minutes if I am waking her by 5.30pm) - sometimes she randomly sleeps for 2 hours instead of 45 minutes and then it's only 3 or 4 naps a day.

Thanks everyone, seems as though I'm the only one with a LO waking up every 1.5 hours! I have a night like Alixion's not so good nights EVERY night.

Think that I am going to have to ride this one out! If you guys don't feed back to sleep at night what do you do - rocking, cuddling, dummies? Think that I am feeding too much at night but too tired to come up with an alternative. And how do I know if he is hungry or just playing me up?

Hopefully it will pass, in the meantime do what you have to do!! There are definitely times when feeding back to sleep is the easiest option, and we had a good two weeks where it was obviously what he needed - he was not himself during the day at that time and had learnt a new rolling skill so was wearing himself out doing it all day and night! When I could see he was ready to go back to his previous pattern of a long stretch from 7pm onwards I either left him to wriggle around or picked him up for a cuddle. He often went back off to sleep within the minute which was very reassuring as I felt soooo guilty
I feed lying down in the night so if he was still unsettled after a minute I would lie him down next to me and see if he just wanted company! (this has only worked twice though!!) I can tell if he's hungry at this point because he gets into the feeding position - so I just feed him
I'm going with the idea that it can't hurt to just check if he's hungry or not by offering the alternative pat/cuddle (whatever works for you!) and then not feeling bad at all if he needs feeding.
I felt much more in control after the first time he went back to sleep without feeding but there were 20 times before and after this that it didn't work For example I know that it never works at 4am - so in my mind this will always be a definite feeding time. Not great for me but there is something nice about the consistency and this week he has slept through from 7pm-4am a few times so I'm calling that progress!!

Not a routine but to comment on above, I count a night with no feeds as sleeping through even if ds needs re settling in cot (17 weeks)

Both of mine have needed a late bedtime to sleep well at this age.