4mo waking through the night

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Hi. DD is 4mo (nearly 5) and for the past month (maybe a bit longer) has been waking almost hourly throughout the night. She is exclusive BF and I ended picking her up and feeding her. She will have a short feed but seems to sucking more for comfort, before I put her back in her cot. I tried leaving her a while last night but it just resulted in her getting louder and I don't want to wake the house. She will not take a dummy, I've tried numerous times. Does anyone have any advice?

Did she sleep through the night before? My lo slept 8 -6 until a month ago. She is now 5 months and is bf, plus some solids.

She is waking up at least twice in the night; sometimes more. She does take dummy- wasn't keen at first buy loves it now and it is a big help.

I think our prob is that she hasn't been self soothing. For some reason it hasn't bothered her before, but it certainly is now.

Does your lo go off to sleep ok?

Sounds like the 4 month sleep regression to me, we've just been through it but got off lightly as it only lasted a week.

Info here and also here.

I thought it may be a regression or a growth spurt, so I didn't do anything to stop it when she first started. But now several weeks later she is the same, if not worse, so I doubt it is. She has never slept through, but I did have a few heavenly weeks where she would wake to eat 2 or 3 times a night. She goes to sleep with no problems after being fed. I always try to put her down when drowsy but sometimes she does fall asleep during the feed. She has had problems eith reflux and a stuffy nose, but this does not appear to causing her trouble at the present time.
I feel I am being used as a crutch to sleep and I'm not sure how to rectify it. I dont mind usually, but I'm becoming extremely cranky from the lack of sleep. She is too young for CC, plus she is still in my bedroom so I couldn't ignore it, and secondly I wouldnt want her waking DD1 or DH. Any other suggestions?

I have a two year old and a three month old baby. I really do think you just have to ride it out, as exhausting as it is. She is too young to leave to cry. Is she definitely getting enligh food in the day? Maybe try putting your feet up and feeding her as much as possible. She could also be starting on teeth, my eldest didn't sleep through til he was 18 months old. I feel your pain but it doesn't last forever x

It sounds like she hasn't learned to self settle and is using boob as a crutch. Do you feed to sleep for all naps as well as bed time and night wakings?

I appreciate you're worried about waking the house at night, but if you worked on her self settling for naps and bed time, night wakings should follow.

At 4 months babies sleep patterns change so they wake more often and need to learn to self settle or they will struggle to sleep longer stretches without you helping them.

Hmm so the links above suggest babies may not be able to self soothe at 5 months. Up to you if you try then, but it worked for my LO and other babies I know...