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Is this the start of the 4 month regression!?

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Poppety · 26/06/2014 21:22

Hi all
My 14 week old has suddenly the last two days become a night are baby!! Clingy and whiney and no patience at all! She no longer let's me feed her to sleep at bedtime but instead prefers to scream her head off until we rock her to sleep instead,
Her feeds are very faffy and extremely short, she is very distracted and will no only have a decent feed if she is tired.
Her night time sleep doesn't appear to be affected, she's always woken up twice and still does.
She's a crap napper now and always has been, although she seems knackered all the time now but just can't go to sleep or stay asleep for longer than 20 minutes
I know that everything is just a phase, I'd just like to know which phase this is!!

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Mummyk1982 · 26/06/2014 22:24

Argh! I'm wondering the same of my DD. She's 12 weeks and for the last 2 weeks bedtime has progressively become a nightmare- sounds much like yours! It got to Monday night when I couldn't put her down as she'd just scream. On Tuesday night I called my mum in tears and she told me just to let her cry in her Moses and leave her for ten mins- she stayed on the phone with me. After 6 mins she stopped and fell asleep. Last night she cried 10 mins, then I went in and stroked her hair/spoke softly to her and she dropped off within 5 mins, and tonight she cried for ten mins and took herself off to sleep. Nap times were becoming a battle too with short naps BUT today she did a 45 min nap, an hr and 20 min nap and a 2 hr nap!
The health visitor also advised me the other day to try and space out feeds more (ebf) to 3 hrs so she's having bigger meals and less snacks- said she'd be fuller overnight that way.
Have followed my mum and the hv advice and last night she slept from 9.45pm til 6am! Maybe it was fluke- we'll see tonight! I think this might have been a sleep regression for us as she was sleeping 7 hr stints and suddenly started waking a couple of times in the night when bedtimes became hard.
Hope this info is useful :-)

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